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Cathleen Rodriguez, 33, of Sugar Land, Texas, plays in two bunco groups, is an alternate in a third and has become such a bunco enthusiast that she self-published Dice with Spice: A Bunco Cookbook, with recipes and menus for bunco parties. For her, playing bunco is "time away from being Mommy and wife, to laugh with the gals and have a good old time," she says. "I would take on another group, but my husband says I've used up my fun quotient for the month." Single women, weary of smoky bars and disappointing blind dates, enjoy the parties...
...Vietnamese are mystified by the large number of foreigners riding around the capital on the ungainly, smoke-billowing "peasant bike," which offers an unwelcome reminder of Soviet domination. But the foreign devotees don't care. "I may never get a Vietnamese girlfriend riding this bike," says Minsk enthusiast Digby Greenhalgh. "But I can get up any mountain." Armed with a Minsk, a tool kit and a good map, few places are out of reach for the adventurous weekend warrior; those with a week can take in an astonishing array of landscapes and locations of historic and cultural interest. The "Grand...
This is the sort of atmosphere in which a retro enthusiast like Stern might seem to thrive. But it's not easy to uphold the pinball tradition in a video-game world. A decade ago, a thriving pinball company could ship 5,000 to 10,000 machines a year; this year, Stern Pinball is shipping "significantly less." Still, says Stern, "it's been a growing year. We're very happy with it. There's room for one company." His biggest hit this year was a new machine called Roller Coaster Tycoon, though the fact that it is based...
Iskandar was a fluent French and Arabic speaker. He was a wine and food enthusiast who loved to travel and recently returned from a vacation in Greece—where Iskandar and his fiance, Nicolette Cavaleros of London, were to be married in July according to the Boston Herald...
...sounds reasonable enough--but there's more. "Living food has a life force," says Chan. "Eating life force gives you life force." Sushi, though raw, has no life force, explains Chan: "Once the fish is cut, the life force dies." If you ever have a dinner date with an enthusiast of the raw--or Yoda--now you know where to make reservations...