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Schoenhof's due to its pleasant atmosphere, interesting books, and frequent discounts, has a dedicated clientele outside of academia. The staff is friendly and helpful, always willing to turn a bookshelf inside-our to find that slim and elusive book which insists on hiding behind some heavy hardcover. As Cambridge resident Marco Calahonra, a native of Argentina, says, "It is the only place where I can find books in my language. They are more expensive than they would be in Buenos Aires, but the prices are not bad and the selection is very good...
...began innocently enough when a travel agent said to me, as if guilelessly, "Since you're taking all these flights, why don't you sign up for a Frequent Flyer program? It's easy, it's free, and you can earn free tickets. Since you're traveling anyway, you've got nothing to lose." That is how it always begins: "Bill, have you heard about this new kind of glue? They say it has the most incredible effect." And then the sudden fall. "I guess it can't hurt. They say everyone is doing...
...satisfied? No. Is any addict ever satisfied? I needed to know that if I bankrupted my entire family, we could all fly free -- or get upgrades at least -- to debtors' prison. So I hooked my telephone up to another carrier's Frequent Flyer program. That didn't help my principal account at all, but it did mean that I got five miles for every phone dollar spent; so if I called Zaire every day for a week -- for 177 straight weeks -- I could get a free ticket to Detroit. Indeed, if I called a friend in Japan for 40 minutes...
...Airfone, charged to my special phone carrier. By the time I land, I might have earned enough miles to get the next leg free. I can even earn tickets while six miles high! (Vertical miles don't count, however, and horizontal ones are not what they seem: the Frequent Flyer is the only bird of prey that flies even more directly than a crow -- thus for a standard 3,000-mile cross-country flight, I'm lucky to get 2,470 miles...
...tenth of a free trip to Menominee. If only, in short, I could turn my friends into addicts as demented as myself, I could empirically prove that there is such a thing as a free lunch. Nowadays I hardly ever think about the credit I could get by attending Frequent Flyer support groups around the globe -- or the five miles I could earn by transmitting this article to the office on my modem. Mostly I'm to be found saying, "Come on. It's easy, it's free, and you can earn free tickets. They say this guy Faust never...