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There's a clear potential payoff for the town's few businesses. Otto Moe, general manager of financial software firm Uni Micro, says broadband access should cut costs. The company has 7,000 clients, most of them in Oslo, an hour away by plane. "Customers can now connect to our servers in Modalen for support or access to our databases," Moe says. Before broadband, the company had to maintain offices in Oslo and Bergen to handle customer relations. Now it's expanding in Modalen, adding a new building and more staff...
...alone will not do the job, and new energy sources are still years away. We are going to have to bend some of the rules for environmental protection for a while in order to keep the lights on, and make the most out of all energy sources. WALTER S. MOE El Dorado Hills, Calif...
...reporter Georgy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was discovered last November. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets calling for Kuchma to resign, and Kravchenko's departure is seen as a gesture of compromise by the President and an effort to preserve his own hold on power. DIED. MORRIS ("MOE") KOFFMAN, 72, flutist, saxophonist and Canadian jazz icon best known for his catchy flute tune Swinging Shepherd Blues, which went to the top of the pop charts in 1958 and was subsequently recorded by more than 100 artists including Ella Fitzgerald; in Toronto. Over a five-decade career, Koffman released...
...clear enough, let me come clean. I am the son of a bread-truck driver who taught me never to enter a restaurant or store in which I couldn't shake the hand of the owner. Only with great pain do I admit that the every place/no place that Moe speaks of--an America built in strips and spurts and without hesitation or nearly enough shame--has one thing going for it. It works. Location, value, convenience--the retail superhighway has got all that. On rare occasions, I suppose, you can even find quality and service there...
...rally for the resurrection of the American downtown. The room was filled with stories of vacant storefronts reopening, of hard-fought triumphs over ridiculous zoning restrictions and blockheaded indifference to architectural heritage, of seniors moving like yuppies into hip lofts above Main Street shops. "We're a discard society," Moe told me that day. "But a lot of people are now seeing the value of preserving the best of what...