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...year-old daughter, Kiveli. He lives in a cozy apartment in the leafy London suburb of West Hampstead and relishes beach time in Greece and good laughs over beer almost anywhere. He is, in other words, a rather normal guy with a sly smile and a quiet manner...
...pact on South Africa's transition council at the Johannesburg World Trade Center, businessmen from 150 U.S. companies and 10 U.S. states were gathered last week for a landmark trade show. Corporations large and small displayed everything from shampoo and ball bearings to portable toilets and pinball machines. All manner of blue- chip names were in attendance: Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Timken and Kellogg. "The potential is there," says Jan Pieterse, an executive at Upjohn, the Michigan-based pharmaceutical firm. "With South Africa able to $ play an important role, this is no longer the lost continent...
...speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player's screen) or "emoting" (expressing a feeling or performing an action). In the early MUDs, players spent most of their time stabbing, clubbing or otherwise inflicting pain on other players. In more highly evolved MUDs, characters engage in all manner of intimate communications, including simulated...
...French say they're happy -- in a manner of speaking. Despite 12% unemployment, a faltering franc and the highest number of AIDS cases in Europe, an opinion poll in the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur found that 88% of French people claim to be happy. Huh? It turns out that the French are just happy not to be unhappy: relief at holding a job and not being infected with AIDS is what makes them smile...
...literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when he was 55. He was a drinker and a jazz buff, but he habitually cloaked himself in a grave manner (when he turned 60, Alan Bennett asked, "but when was he anything else...