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...modernize. Industry officials say they spend tens of millions making bingo halls more youth-friendly and installing state-of-the-art equipment. The Ping-Pong balls with numbers painted on are gone. Instead, a computer randomly selects the numbers and displays them on a digital screen overhead. The quaint bingo lingo is no more: the two little ducks (22) have flown the coop and the two fat ladies (88) have walked off on their legs eleven (11). But innovation has its limits: an attempt to replace the daubers and paper cards with a small contraption the size of a Palm...
...senses that only serves to heighten the appetite. Inside the compact space, a frying pan hisses loudly from behind a wall, the soft aroma of rice lingers in the air, and the noise of the kitchen crowds the dining area to create a welcoming and homely ambience. The quaint dining area, with its simple, checkered table cloths and sparse table decoration, resembles a room in a doll house...
...concerts. Now Reuben Harley, 29, Mitchell & Ness's marketing director (and the man who met with Combs), says the jerseys have helped boost the company's annual sales to $25 million in 2002 from just $2.8 million in 2000. That makes Mitchell & Ness, formerly a little-known supplier of quaint 1930s-era wool baseball jerseys, the latest "urban gear" phenomenon. Other customers include Allen Iverson, the rapper Eve and a growing coterie of buyers in Asia...
...with an excerpt, along with a chapter from Frances Maye's Under the Tuscan Sun and many other tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured of romanticism...
...notes on this record-holding crucifix. Somewhere out there one of my fellow research-writers was exploring the Great Wall of China. I was driving through a great wall of corn. And there’s a Harvard student who partied on Bourbon St. as I poked around the quaint biergartens of Milwaukee...