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...sometimes get pretty thick over the perfume counter. Now a German company, Aerome, has developed a computerized multimedia kiosk that stores as many as 100 popular scents from the likes of Calvin Klein and Chanel and then releases them--discreetly--through a small opening while an infomercial plays onscreen. The kiosks will be in stores in Germany, England and France this week, with a U.S. debut at Bloomingdale's and Macy's next month...
...When it came time to pay, several of them drew out thick wads of crisp $100 bills. Because of the crisis, this place is not taking credit cards right now. I asked them why they didn't pay in rubles...
...April 1997 a fully detailed plan complete with maps, diagrams and operational data had been drafted and printed in the form of a half-inch-thick booklet with an orange cover; code name: Operation Amber Star. It called for a two-pronged raid involving several hundred soldiers in which helicopter-borne French troops would "neutralize" the 30-man guard around Karadzic, while an elite U.S. commando force would move in and seize the suspect. Depending on the circumstances, those roles could be reversed. But such a hazardous operation could not proceed without head-of-state approval...
...small fortune. Copper wires, pioneered by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, were still state of the art. And Seidenberg was the guy you might have spotted crawling into manholes in New York City and cheerfully splicing phone lines together deep underground--peeling back the rubber coating on the finger-thick wires, laying the cable on the splicer and then gently pressing the copper wires together. He made a living wage; they called him a splicer's assistant...
...transmuted into a symbol of frustrated democracy. By the time of his mysterious death in the new capital city of Abuja last week, he had been elevated into something he never was, the figurehead of the political freedom Nigeria never had. No matter that for years Abiola was thick as thieves with the military strongmen who were stealing millions from their country; no matter that he pocketed money from sweetheart deals he had cut with the greedy generals. Nigerians were desperate for a hero to worship, and Abiola, who would have been 61 next month, fit the bill...