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...Though fans will be disappointed to discover that Choi and her other half, Gillian Ching Yan-tung, rarely man the store themselves, the duo's image brings in a varied crowd. "I think we're more upbeat than most second-hand clothes stores in Hong Kong, and we appeal to a wide age-range," says shop assistant Ivan Fok. "We've had fans as young as eight in here, as well as people in their forties...
...Bangkok for more than a decade, so we don't get much domestic demand for new tuk tuks. Mostly it's spare parts and repairs." Even if local demand is falling, Thailand remains the world's foremost exporter of the three-wheelers, shipping up to 5,000 new and second-hand tuk tuks a year to neighbors such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. "People all over the world are interested in tuk tuks," Anuwat says. "They buy them for novelties or for transport vehicles, garbage trucks, ice-cream vans." Another big manufacturer, Asian Quality Company...
Inaugurated at the beginning of the term, the service is open to veterans and non-veterans alike, although it is run entirely by the University Chapter of the American Veterans Committee. It is designed to facilitate the buying and selling of second-hand texts by means of a card catalogue listing volumes offered for sale by students who no longer need them...
Stanley H. Lofchie '50, a member of the AVC's Students Affairs Committee and manager of the book directory, says that by the use of the service, both book hunters and book-sellers come out ahead of those who go to the local second-hand marts...
Public health officers present said they were unlikely to change their stance, emphasizing the health hazard that second-hand smoke poses...