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...shoe is on the other foot. The Americans are coming and bringing with them the attitudes of a society mired in the complacency of mass consumption. Elderly American tourists crowd the art museums looking for Diego Velazquez and Joan Miro prints to send home to the family, snapping photos ransacking gift shops along the way. At night, everybody straggles home from the bars and discotheques, but it is the Americans who are singing...
Vaclav Havel has a sense of humor, but too far is too far. The Czech President has asked his lawyers to seek almost $150,000 in damages from a shoe company that depicted him being licked by a terrier on a poster, according to the daily newspaper Dnes. What riled him was not the image but the English slogan, which contains the F word...
...Downs, the secret finally came out when she gave her 19 children and grandchildren shoe boxes stuffed with nearly identical collections of telescam trash. "We considered taking her checkbook away," says daughter Penelope Clute, a prosecuting attorney in New York State. "Fortunately, we didn't do that. It wasn't her. It could happen to anyone. [The scammers] are criminals, and they have the psychology down pat." Even after her secret was out, Downs could not give up hope of recouping some losses. A few weeks later, she called her children to report, with great relief, that at long last...
...line of Ready consumer PCs ($1,999 to $2,999, plus monitor), making its debut in August, breaks from the gray-box approach to PC design by placing the CD-ROM and floppy drives in a shoe box-size module that sits next to the monitor, making for a much simpler look. A special display gives regular news updates throughout the day. And this week the company is initiating a build-to-order program aimed squarely at rivals such as Gateway. The approach may help the firm grab that market share it so badly covets...
...Florida lead the U.S. in number of cremations. People who pick cremation see it as simpler and less expensive than a burial--and it certainly consumes less space. The average cremated remains weigh about 6 1/2 lbs. and take up about 200 cu. in., the volume of a small shoe...