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...small businesses that will sell access to the Net starting at $10 to $30 a month. And in the past few months, mainstream computer services like America Online have started to make it possible for their subscribers to reach parts of the Internet through standard, easy-to-use menus...
...trust and uterine contraction," he observes as she chats with Katya, a sinister colleague. "The 2 parts per 17 million diffusion of this chemosensory signal causes Katya, whose biology serves purely Machiavellian ends, to wrinkle her nose." Sayonara Bar's wealth of convincing detail - hostess lounge décor, menus and flirtation techniques, foreign visa technicalities, drunken-salaryman patter, Yakuza personnel policy - suggests that the author has been there and, horrors, maybe even done that. In fact, Barker, born 26 years ago to an English father and a Chinese-Malay mother, did spend two years working in Osaka, though...
...said they were inclined to boycott U.S. brands, only a few included Visa on the list. (American Express, by contrast, was strongly identified as being American.) Still, even companies that believe and practice a localized strategy aren't immune to political backlash. McDonald's, for example, adapts its menus to local taste; its restaurants serve Kiwi burgers in New Zealand and wine in France. But that hasn't prevented the fast-food chain from being a favorite target of French protesters. And General Motors has for decades made cars in Germany under the German brand Opel. But when GM last...
...past few years, several high-end restaurants in Singapore that served fusion cuisine?like the Japanese-European Centro 360?have closed. Others have refashioned their menus to make them more representative of one culinary culture. Last year, Weibel changed the focus of Raffles' Jaan restaurant from French-Cambodian to modern French. At Equinox, on top of the adjacent Raffles City complex, he has gone to great lengths to assure diners that they can choose between "pure Western and pure Asian cuisine," cooked in two separate kitchens...
...exporter of fake goods, from pirated DVDs to knockoff Birkin bags. Now add truffles to the list. To the naked eye, the Chinese black truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much-vaunted cousin, Tuber melanosporum, or the P?rigord truffle, a gastronomic delicacy that perks up winter menus with its earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion: the Chinese variety is insipid compared with the French one. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as P?rigord's black diamonds. The deception has roiled...