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Grubby tables and fetid air once seemed to attract me. During high school summers, friends would flock to the striped umbrellas and concrete chess tables of Au Bon Pain, the invariable meeting place for a night out. I drank numerous oily cups of Peet's Coffee, pretending that I was a tortured poet in a proverbial coffee house. I even developed a taste for their tuna croissant-wiches. I have good memories of ABP; it wasn't until college that it started to make me cringe...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: COFFEE AND POP | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Grubby tables and fetid air once seemed to attract me. During high school summers, friends would flock to the striped umbrellas and concrete chess tables of Au Bon Pain, the invariable meeting place for a night out. I drank numerous oily cups of Peet's Coffee, pretending that I was a tortured poet in a proverbial coffee house. I even developed a taste for their tuna croissant-wiches. I have good memories of ABP; it wasn't until college that it started to make me cringe...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Endpaper: Coffee and Pop | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Every so often, though, the truly random Harvard architecture miraculously forms a logical space for social gatherings. These spaces become renowned and students flock to them on weekend nights...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Barbecue to Kegerator: Harvard's Party Suites | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Every so often, though, the truly random Harvard architecture miraculously forms a logical space for social gatherings. These spaces become renowned and students flock to them on weekend nights...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTY | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...really blame them? Each month, some 6 million visitors flock to eBay's sprawling virtual tag sale, according to research firm Media Metrix, right behind Amazon's 8 million. A third of those browsers regularly bid on or sell a selection of nearly 2 million items, including computers, Ginsu knives, baseball cards and model trains, generating about $300 million in total transactions during the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998. "There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's One Big Market | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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