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...player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National Guard Armory for dances and bought and ran a bar. He earned his junior-year expenses with a chain letter...
...town of Yong Jing in northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting - and unwilling - assignees to a program of re-education through...
...town of Yong Jing in Northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through...
...Canteen Vending, based in Charlotte, N.C., is busy retrofitting 50,000 machines nationwide to take payment from FreedomPay wands by the end of 2002. FORTUNE 500 companies such as Prudential Insurance and GM already have vending machines that accept payment by wand. And Yale students will get similar machines in their cafeterias next year...
McDonald's hopes to accept RFID wands nationwide as early as next year. Canteen has decided to convert all its vending machines after watching sales shoot up more than 40% in its North Carolina test. IBM technology guru Michael Karasick notes that while "the hype level for m-commerce has gone way down," the the technology still promises to change retailing "profoundly...