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...underground mall at Taipei's famous Hsing-tian Temple hosts an odd collection of closet-sized rooms. Inside, under sterile fluorescent lights, perch several young Japanese women on low wooden stools, patiently waiting to have their fortunes told. Each is spending $60-150 for a session lasting less than a half hour but they insist that the predictions and advice - details on marriage, future children and career advancement - are worth every penny. "The Chinese fortune tellers are more accurate," says one of the Japanese tourists. That's a reputation worth cultivating. According to one fortune teller, a third...
Chris Sullivan, the current editor, had faxed me a 10-point response to national press accounts calling Southern Partisan racist, segregationist and secessionist. So I expected to find a considerable operation, one equal to the wrath against it. But at an unremarkable strip mall, I entered an office that contained the entire paid staff: Sullivan and one assistant. The quarterly magazine has 8,000 subscribers and generally runs between 50 and 60 pages. Sullivan uses free-lance writers--columnists and essayists, mostly--who are paid between $200 and $500 per article. "We're not in the news because...
...legislation that finds its way to the Commerce Committee is expected to try to strike a very tentative balance: Expand states' sales tax collection authority, but only if at least 25 states simplify their own multiple tax rates. A coalition of retailers and mall-owners, including Wal-Mart, is lobbying for sales taxes to apply equally to all sales, and 32 state legislatures have already begun to get together to try to pave the way to a simpler national sales-tax picture. Tech companies, meanwhile, have begun to soften - as long as compliance burdens are reasonable. Says committee chairman John...
...Germany. When he couldn't get dope he would sniff glue. He would do anything, take any kind of drug. I remember seeing him on St. Mark's Place after he left the band, hair short and spiky, in skintight Spandex pants that looked left over from some mall scene of years before. He was thin, "on the heroin diet" as we used to say. Somehow he survived, fought off the dope, wrote a book about it: "Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones...
...doesn’t propose a solution because there is none: “Social injustice is not an error to be corrected, nor is it a defect to be overcome. It is an essential requirement of the system. No natural world is capable of supporting a mall the size of the planet...