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...chips worldwide and figures about 2,000 have been implanted. Applied CEO Scott Silverman hopes to sell chips to the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI--feeding into X-Files-type fears of biochipped government agents lording over the citizenry. A novel use: Baja Beach Club, a European nightclub chain, is offering "VipChip membership" to speed patrons through the ropes in Barcelona and Rotterdam. Some 430 clubgoers have signed on--at $1,300 apiece...
...only nationwide ice cream chain with a socially conscious mission statement gives the celebrant a free small cone of any of its large assortment of flavors, from the vintage Cherry Garcia (cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes) to the epic Gobfather (chocolate ice cream with fudge covered almonds and a nougat swirl). No free hippies included...
...reporter, who is feverishly taking down notes and has forgotten to show ID, suspiciously. “He’s with me,” the officer says with a chuckle. 8:53 p.m.: Wielding a flashlight, Fumicello creeps into a darkened alley alongside Claverly Hall. A chain-link fence surrounds the construction site of the old Hasty Pudding theatre. Ominous shadows shroud a grimy, uneven pathway. The graffiti that adorns a sullied white wall reads: “rock bottom.” Indeed. 9:21 p.m.: A preppily-dressed student scales Lowell House’s gates...
...response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character closes her cozy kids' bookstore, unable to compete with the chain around the corner), Ross decided to fight back...
...play," he says. "In these kinds of businesses, we see not just an appeal to quality but an appeal to identity and authenticity." Yes, the books at Cody's are probably all available on Amazon, and yes, many of them are also sold, at a discount, by the big chain store around the corner. But just as a small wine bar can thrive by pouring drinks available more cheaply at a liquor store or sports bar, so can a bookstore trade on its cachet of cool. "My guess is that the market does value the combination of being there, touching...