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After one month Sanders was allowed to carry money at the pump--a promotion. "Jean's been a good man," says Brad Goodman, the station owner. "When I met him, I found it hard to believe that he had such an illicit history. He was very soft spoken, well mannered, clean cut." Sanders makes less than $13,000 a year, and he doesn't get any benefits yet. But he is employed and has a room of his own. "I don't have no issues," he says. "I work, I come home tired, I go to sleep, I go back...
...Jane and Jim Kaplan, a retired real estate broker and an electronics-company owner, both in their 60s, the importance of friendship hit home when they were considering relocating from Wayne, N.J., to one of several locales with appealing climate and recreational opportunities. "When push came to shove and we really thought about it," Jane recalls, "we felt we should go somewhere where we had close friends." Two years ago, the couple moved to the Governor's Land near Williamsburg, Va., a residential community, to be near Ginger and Herb Knapp, friends since their student days at the College...
...Airport security most likely will only get tougher. To meet the deadline set by Congress late last year, Mineta will announce this week that starting Jan. 18, for the first time in history, U.S. airlines will search every bag put on a domestic aircraft or match it with its owner...
...Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Dajout's death was the first in a series of murders by the FIS that targeted high-profile intellectuals. "The Last Summer of Reason," a haunting novel in French, was found in Djaout's papers. It is the story of Boualem Yekker, a bookstore owner whose country is being overtaken by fundamentalists. The book has just been published in English by Ruminator Books, which is donating a percentage of the proceeds to the American Booksellers Foundation for the Freedom of Expression...
...price hikes, or just rounding up their prices with the conversion. At Bar Pamphili in Rome, a single espresso costs 1,100 lire, the equivalent of 57 euro cents. Pay in euros and the same cup costs 60 cents. "We rounded all the prices, some up and some down," owner Giuseppe Scaramuzzo is quick to explain. "Anyway, today is just the first day. It's like an experiment." The early evidence is that most businesses have played fair, with a little cajoling from watchful consumers and national governments. In Italy, playing games with the exchange rate can, in theory, earn...