Word: cafes
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...stayed at the Hotel Dar Salam in the Belgian capital's Arab quarter, where travel agencies offer bus trips to North Africa and the air smells of figs, oranges and cous-cous. On most days, Reid walked into the city center to send e-mails from the Easynet Internet cafe...
...savers returns higher than those of traditional banks, at which, Yashiro notes, the annual interest income on a 1 million yen deposit--about $7,700--earns the equivalent of two bus tickets. The lobby of Shinsei's steel-and-glass headquarters in central Tokyo looks more like an Internet cafe than a bank, with customers lounging at flat-screen computers while making transactions and checking stock quotes. Other bank branches share space with Starbucks...
...Daschle's Senate has proven a lot better at shouting than at passing legislation, however, and with the Democrats toting around a bill of their own - one that's expected to attract 200 amendments - well, there's just so much to fight about. ANWR and Yucca, CAFE standards and fuel cells. Should we subsidize coal to help make it cleaner, or subsidize cleaner energy? Give more tax breaks for producers, or for conservers? What about ethanol? And of course there's the deregulation fight, and the very NIMBYist issue of transmission-grid siting, which brings us back to Enron...
PENETRATING AL-QAEDA: Tenet's toughest moment came when Senator John Roberts said his constituents at a Dodge City, Kans., coffee shop wanted to know why John Walker Lindh could get into al-Qaeda but the CIA couldn't. Tenet, visibly upset, replied, "You better tell everybody at the cafe it's not true." Did he mean his agents had infiltrated al-Qaeda? A U.S. official told TIME that Tenet meant just that; the CIA does have a spy inside al-Qaeda--the first time the agency has ever acknowledged this. "We have our own unilateral sources," the official says...
DIED. JEAN PATCHETT, 75, popular fashion model who was featured on more than 40 magazine covers, including Vogue, in the 1950s; of emphysema; in La Quinta, Calif. Irving Penn, who made Patchett famous with a moody 1949 photograph that showed her sitting in a cafe chewing on her pearls, called her an "American goddess in Paris couture...