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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What seems to satisfy mom-and-pop customers most is a quality that the chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw...
...Likely Story (20,000; Miami). Strictly for kids, this store was established by three mothers who were concerned that their children were watching too much TV. Decorated like an old rural library, the cozy shop draws customers with classics like Pat the Bunny, a section for teens and toys for prereaders. Special events have included an appearance by popular kiddie author Jack Prelutsky, who read his poem Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast to an SRO crowd. "I love it here," says shopper Aida Littauer. "I tell them what I want, and they pick out the books...
...that when Jones sings Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive, a nifty reggae tune, the optimism cuts deep because so much that's come before has been so unsparing. The song is a victory cry from a performer who almost counted herself out. Now she's back, looking like her old self: the most gifted woman on the scene...
...from Armenia describe how he and his family were expelled from their home last November. "I was thrown from my house, beaten," the man says. "I lived off weeds, anything I could find." As Huseynov shakes his head in anger, the refugee continued, "They want to cut us up like sheep. But we'll burn them first...
After many such debacles, AID has started assessing the environmental impact of its funding. Other Executive Branch agencies, such as the Treasury Department, which oversees U.S. contributions to international lending institutions like the World Bank, should follow suit...