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When the tiny Yugoslav republic of Montenegro (pop. 650,000) adopted the euro last month - replacing its official currency, the deutsche mark - the move was greeted in the capital Podgorica with near universal acclaim. With its sultry Adriatic breezes, cyprus-lined boulevards and busy sidewalk caf?s, the city already feels more a part of southern Europe than the benighted region known as the Balkans. And Montenegrins regard the euro as an important step toward further integration with the more prosperous countries of Western Europe. That goal, in fact, is the one thing everyone can agree on. Where Montenegrins differ, heatedly...
AQUAVIT 13 West 54th Street (212-307-7311). The entrance to this restaurant in a Renaissance-style townhouse is a few steps below the sidewalk and marked with only a small sign that is easy to miss. Once you're inside, it sheds its modesty...
Marc Starr watches silently as 116 boxes of used books, piled on the brick sidewalk outside his 29 Plympton St. storefront, are loaded into a van to be sold to Daedalus Fine Books in Oregon...
...believes, are ideal for downtown transportation. Unlike cars, they are cheap, clean, efficient, maneuverable. Unlike bicycles, they are designed specifically to be pedestrian friendly. "A bike is too slow and light to mix with trucks in the street but too large and fast to mix with pedestrians on the sidewalk," he argues. "Our machine is compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits you, it's like being hit by another pedestrian." By traveling at three or four times walking speed, and thus turning what would have been a 30-minute walk into a 10-minute ride, Kamen contends, Segways...
...sidewalk issue is dicier. In order to ensure that Segways are permitted to move alongside pedestrians, Kamen's regulatory-affairs mavens will have to keep the machine from being classified either as a motor vehicle or as a scooter. At the federal level, the deal is done--though, for a while, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wanted to classify the Segway as a "powered industrial truck." Technically, final sidewalk authority rests with state and local governments. Kamen is betting, however, that the decision will be made not by lawmakers but "de facto, by what becomes standard practice...