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...dwelling with one in 1999, he has developed Quik House, a three-bedroom kit house fabricated from recycled containers, and most recently the Push Button House, a single container that opens in 90 seconds at the touch of a button. Italian coffee company Illy uses some as mobile outdoor cafés in Chicago, California and South America...
...hotel in Alexandria and received a three-hour pep talk from the master. Rejecting the Arab vogue for postmodernism, Al Aswany has stayed true to the Mahfouz tradition of social realism. And like Mahfouz, he has a gift for writing literary page turners that are endlessly discussed by café intellectuals while also being accessible to Egyptians who normally have more time for Al-Ahly, their favorite football team. "He is read everywhere," says Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, editor of Al-Mulhaq, the Arab world's leading literary supplement. "The importance of Al Aswany is that he reinvented the popular...
...Zhou claims he has not been changed by the experience, but his crusading days are over. With money borrowed from his parents, he says he is going back into the vegetable business, as well as opening a small coffee shop and Internet café. As for citizen journalism, "I have already spent more than half a year as a living example of how this works," he wrote on his blog last December. "The task of saving yourselves is in your own hands now." Many millions of Chinese Netizens will be watching to see who - if anyone - among their number rises...
...American eagle judging the Gallic rooster is a bit like a sparrow that's skeptical about the allure of a butterfly. France's charm is less in its books and paintings than in Chanel No. 5, the banks of the Seine, its café terraces, its foie gras and its Christmas decorations on Avenue Montaigne. Here the first of the arts is l'art de vivre. And if many people here want to do as little as possible and be assisted, that proves there is still a lot of good sense among us. If America finds us intellectually unworthy...
What a nice guy! Mitt Romney is all humble and reasonable, a human goose-down comforter lulling the Iowans who have come to hear him at a classic heartland café in downtown Newton on a Saturday morning. "I don't think anybody votes for yesterday," he says, streaming balm. "We vote for tomorrow. Elections are about the future." Romney's version of the future sounds as if he's pickpocketed the polling data used by Democrats roaming the cornfields, with an occasional Republican nod to lower taxes and a strong defense. He talks about the need for an alternative...