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...professionals. Suzie Gruber, 37, a user-interface consultant for a company that is developing applications for the construction industry, says she spends six hours a week at Starbucks. She's constantly on the road meeting with clients, and whenever she needs to go online she just drops into the nearest Starbucks anywhere between Los Angeles and San Francisco. "I'm a lot more efficient now," she says, since she can reply to e-mails during the day instead of waiting until she gets home...
Each day, Jones sits at the table in front of the counter, in the chair on the right side (nearest the kitchen, so she can talk to the guys and eat at the same time). “We tease her, play with her a little,” DiCenso says. Still, he jokes, “the guys at Pinnochio’s are sick and tired of hearing about [her] bowling average!” Jones is “a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful person,” he concludes. “We really love...
...next morning, the acrid smell of explosives had wafted to the nearest village, and someone tipped off the cops that looters might be at work. The following night police staked out the tomb. Three raiders were caught; two got away. State press reports hailed the arrests as a triumph, but instead of filling in the hole and posting a guard, the underfunded local cultural-relics bureau simply placed wooden planks across the hole and tossed in some dirt. Before long, other gangs pilfered at least 200 treasures, mostly ceramic statues, from the site. Among the loveliest of these pieces...
Resident Phyllis Baumann said the neighborhood residents did not see a specific plan, but one option she said is on the table would include several 35-foot buildings on the Mahoney’s plot and a public park on the area of the site nearest to the Charles River...
...this issue will either draw the community to support their re-election or cause them to work hard to dethrone those who have not been sensitive to the community,” says Alan Joslin, a member of the Kerry Corner Improvement Association, a group representing the city blocks nearest Mather House...