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None of this, you can imagine, made bookstore chains very happy. But they held back on the Net. For years the buzz in the book industry was all about building new megastores, where shoppers could sip mochaccinos and chew over big ideas while they sat on comfortable couches. And in the two years that Barnes & Noble and Borders were focusing on what kinds of vanilla-sugar cubes to put in their coffee bars, Bezos was building an empire. B&N has tried to catch up, forging close ties with the gigantic online service America Online and suing Amazon.com over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Till You Drop | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

FOUNDED The conference was inaugurated in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, 60, a German-born business professor and consummate networker, as an intimate gathering at which business leaders could chew over world problems as they rode chairlifts to some of the Alps' finest skiing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Camps | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...Park Fair, TLG lures mall rats to its laboratory, often rewarding them with cash or food. Once there, they might sit in the focus rooms and chew gum for hours to test new flavors, or they might examine a fleet of new banana-seat bicycles and comment on the colors and styles. All the while, clients can view the testing through two-way mirrors. For one test, 35 children came in to sample 34 different juices. Hey, it pays to go to the experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Termites are a homeowner's nightmare under the best of circumstances. But what Patrick saw in his bathroom ceiling that day were not just any termites. They were Formosan termites--the most voracious, aggressive and devious of over 2,000 termite species known to science. Formosan termites can chew their way through beams and plywood nine times as fast as their more laid-back cousins. Their colonies are huge, housing up to 10 million insects. They nest underground, in trees, in walls--just about anywhere there's wood and water. And they're on the move: long confined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Termites from Hell | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Serious Addiction could easily live up to its name. Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate: ice cream, fudge and chocolate chips. It was strong and rich, but the bittersweet chocolate made it possible to eat a whole serving without thinking twice. The chunks of chocolate were soft and easy to chew. It reminds us of Ben & Jerry's New York Chocolate Fudge Chunk. And the large chunks reveal that the ice cream is, indeed, homemade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Scream for Ice Cream | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

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