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...Parisian outlet, is already offering Evian and pastries at the French McDos and tweaking standard fare with Greek Macs and a "dollar menu" variant in Germany. Next up: develop McDonald's in Russia, launch sandwiches and remodel British restaurants this fall--perhaps even offer a "meat and chocolate" dish in Romania. No stranger to the short-order line, Hennequin might just flip the burger market...
...widespread as rice - so are baguettes and Dijon mustard, legacies of French colonial rule. Sample this melting pot at Chez Mimi, tel: (221) 823 9788, or Keur Ndeye, tel: (221) 821 4973, both in the capital, Dakar. But if you want something that's all Senegalese, order the national dish of tieboudienne - a spicy fish and tomato rice - and a round of attaya, which is tea with mint. Served in tiny cups, attaya is a generations-old ritual. Best of all, there's not a scary flavor enhancer in sight...
...American backyard is a battleground for the television industry. The subject of dispute: 1.5 million satellite dish antennas. These contraptions enable their owners to pick up free the 100-odd TV signals that fly through the sky. This is irksome to programmers transmitting shows to local cable operators via satellite. The industry estimates that it loses up to $700 million a year to commercial owners of dishes and forfeits additional income to private dish owners...
Last week two leading cable services, Home Box Office and Cinemax, which are both owned by Time Inc., acted to stymie this practice. The firms began scrambling their satellite transmissions so that dish owners who try to tune into those cable networks will get nothing but a garble. Fourteen other cable programmers, including MTV, CNN and Showtime, will follow suit. Showtime will start scrambling its signals...
Satellite-dish owners can receive those cable services by buying a device to unscramble the signals (price: $395). In addition, they will have to pay a monthly fee, just like cable viewers. RETAILING The British Are Leaving...