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...stockpile a collection of higher-quality beans. Suzanne Lattanzio, a Hampshire, Ill., real estate agent, has been home-roasting for two years and says she "hates" buying roasted beans. "I like the romance of the different names and being able to pick out something from some far-off port...
...comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...
...combing the mountains along the Afghan border for al-Qaeda fighters. Yet the government needs to pacify the Baluch warriors. It has plans to expand gas exploration, allow a pipeline to run across Baluchistan from Iran to India, and, with Chinese help, it is building a multimillion dollar port at Gwadar?all of which incenses the Baluch tribesmen who are worried that, once again, they will be cut out of the profits...
MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN... Abandoning Ship P&O finally pulled the plug on a scheduled 103-day world cruise by its flagship Aurora after the vessel spent 11 days shuttling mostly between the English port city of Southampton and the Isle of Wight while engineers tried to fix an engine problem. The company's offer of a full refund seemed unlikely...
...gone digital, there are still times when a scanner would be handy for e-mailing an older print or posting it on an online photo site. The Visigo Photo Scanner from Ambir Technology is a 600-dpi model about the size of a stapler that plugs into any USB port and works with popular image-editing programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements. It draws power from your computer, so no batteries or other power supplies are needed. In tests, the Visigo took 25 seconds to scan a 4-in. by 6-in. photo. Though it can't handle anything wider than...