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...listening to music coming out of antiquated speakers (it might be by the Ronettes, the Rolling Stones or Khan Ly, Vietnam's most celebrated diva and a Café Tung regular in the 1960s). "I'm keeping it this way because it has worked for nearly 50 years," says proprietor Tung Dinh Tran, who opened the café in 1959 but has now handed over the management of it to his son. With a bit of luck, it will work for the next...
...network. For example, two people whose "handles" on CompuServe were Angel and Malaprop were married last September in a California ceremony filled with "flowers, balloons and water pistols." At the Old Colorado City Electronic Cottage, a bulletin board in Colorado Springs, Colo., used by 8,500 buffs, Proprietor David Hughes does a sort of man-on-the-street reporting he calls "saloon journalism." Operating out of a local bistro with a portable PC, he lobbies against the growing legislative threats to his "electronic freedom of speech," urging others to join the fight...
...which took place over the Net -- government officials maintained that they needed Clipper to be able to intercept and decipher messages from mobsters, drug dealers and terrorists. Not so, claim critics. "Clipper is not about child molesters or the Mafia but about the Internal Revenue Service," argues Bruce Fancher, proprietor of a New York City Internet service provider called Mindvox. "Clipper just doesn't make sense any other way." As more and more commerce takes place on the Internet, contends Fancher, the IRS is going to need a surefire way to track the flow of cyberbucks -- and to collect...
...book, in a story titled "Aristotle," has him staring through a caf? window, salivating at the sight of an abandoned, half-full coffee mug. He enters, drinks, and complains about it. Setting up to deliver a lesson on Aristotle to his young admirers Owen becomes incensed at the proprietor's suggestion that they buy something. "I don't pay for things," he says. "And I don't work." A stubborn malcontent with bad teeth and a dirty cap, Hutch has dropped out in order to follow the musings of his mind. Unfortunately this often pits him squarely against the demands...
...tourist attractions. They're a top lure in Ireland as well. But, travelers, bored with chain motels and overpriced bed-and-breakfasts, are finding the idea of sleeping in a historical monument attractive indeed. "People are tired of country hotels. They want a bit more personality," says Roger Masterson, proprietor of accommodation agency Celtic Castles. Eager to oblige them, castle owners throughout Britain and Ireland have been damp-proofing dungeons and touching up turrets, knowing that history sells - along with billable extras such as spa treatments, banquets and hunting lessons. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...