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According to Susan Flannery, director of the Cambridge Public Library, new computer terminals with World Wide Web access will soon be added to the children's department at the library's main branch, located at 449 Broadway...
Library records show that 450 to 500 people use their machines every month. Susan Ciccone, a reference librarian at the main branch, said the three terminals offering Netscape are almost constantly...
...alternative to built-in locks on the computers, Nathan--who said she and her three children visit the main branch twice a week--suggested that attentive library staff could monitor access...
...warm enticements that draw suburbanites to small towns. But before such lures can work their magic, the towns must remake themselves into places where people want to live. To learn how, more than 1,200 communities since 1980 have turned to the National Main Street Center, a branch of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Best known for its work protecting landmarks, the trust also deserves credit for teaching local leaders how to revive dingy business districts and make specialty shops flourish in the age of big-box retailers. The 10 towns that follow were once struggling. Today, thanks...
...Prince's ultrarich uncles, the eldest sons of Ibn Saud, who rule Saudi Arabia today, have accumulated their wealth mainly by diverting huge sums, directly or indirectly, from the government's extravagant oil revenues. As a Riyadh businessman puts it, Alwaleed's branch of the Saud family tree has always been considered a little smoother and a little straighter than the rest. His father Talal, a former Ambassador to France, was one of the "free princes" who demanded democratization and went into temporary exile during the troubled 1953-64 reign of King Saud. Alwaleed's mother, Princess Mona...