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Wayward hackers have been known to place the job security of many a caddy in jeopardy. One of the more dreaded layouts was a quaint nine-hole course on Weihaiwei Island in China that was shut down after the revolution. Sporting greens of packed fine sand instead of grass, its most conspicuous landmarks were an adjacent shooting gallery, an abandoned fort swarming with scorpions, and a short ninth hole which required bouncing a drive off the clubhouse roof...
Sitting in his quaint workroom, replete with ancient Singer sewing machines, an endless series of Neolite rubber heels, and large rusting old machinery, Felix seems something of an anachronism, one of the few true remaining craftsmen. To hear him talk is at once poignant and glad-dening. For even as he acknowledges his anachronistic situation--"Nobody wants shoemakers anymore"--he would not want to do anything else. He genuinely likes his work...
...quaint rowhouses have a short turnover period on the average, but each year new friends are made, community programs and day care centers established, and strong neighborhood ties developed...
...city maps, plans for the city water system and, of course, 400 years of experience. Nonetheless, the place seems to run amazingly well. Street sweepers are out daily, and the hedge outside the Governor's Palace is clipped regularly, despite the fact that the only residents of the quaint building are seven foreign journalists...
Attorneys representing the province of Quebec found all this quaint but irrelevant. Their argument was simple, traditional and arrogant: how could a handful of primitives in a vast wilderness stand in the way of progress? The government also tried to persuade the judge that Cree and Eskimos were eagerly embracing the white man's ways. Considerable effort was made to produce a witness who had seen Indians eating Kentucky Fried Chicken...