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...most of these graduates, eclectic a key word. It certainly applies to the food served at Miss Ruby's Café, which opened late last year in Manhattan. Says Ruth Bronz, the Texas-born owner-chef: "I plan menu changes on a regular basis, switching from Cajun-Creole to New Mexican to Shaker. I'm missionary about it." Shaker food, along with the fare of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the American Indians, has already packed them in at special festivals in the formal American Harvest restaurant at Manhattan's Vista International Hotel. And surely eclectic the word for the menu...
...Symbian has excelled because it has strong ties to the mobile industry. It's owned by Nokia, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens and Samsung. But keeping Symbian's owners in harmony is tough. Flare-ups are common among companies concerned that Nokia's 48% stake in Symbian gives it too much say. Clifford has peacemaking experience. He ran the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he balanced the clashing interests of doctors, patients, university and government. Now he will have to broker peace with one hand while fighting competitors like Microsoft and Linux with the other. A new wrinkle appeared...
...toward the avant garde (www.baum raum.de). A triangular construction, for example, suspended on steel ropes more than 8 m above ground between two beeches, is designed to resemble a ship. The one-room, 7-sq-m dwelling, on the grounds of a livery stable near Bremen, serves as the owner's weekend retreat. It boasts a glass-topped lookout, terrace and hatch-door entry, as well as heating and electricity. So if you have the urge to nest, look out for a suitable tree, or plant one right away-in 20 years' time, it may be ready for your...
...DIED. MAXIM MICHALIK, 2, Canadian-born schoolboy; after being shot during an eight-hour siege of an international school; in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Chea Sokhom, 23, a former driver for a South Korean restaurant owner, and three accomplices entered the school and took about 30 schoolchildren and teachers hostage. Cambodian police delivered $30,000 in ransom and a van per the four's demands, but they were overpowered by police and arrested before they could drive away. Police reported that Sokhom wanted to take revenge on his former employer, who he said had slapped him, by kidnapping...
...Oddly, Wynn isn't very interested in gambling. His bingo-parlor-owner father, to whom Steve was reportedly close, was a compulsive gambler. On the eve of his father's cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, New Jersey, (with financing from junk...