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While you could easily spend a week shopping in New Orleans' myriad stores, a good rule of thumb if your time is limited is to give yourself a day or two just to browse and ask merchants questions plus another day to make purchases, says Macon Riddle, president of Let's Go Antiquing, a New Orleans antiques consulting and shopping service. For $100 an hour, with a three-hour minimum, Riddle will accompany you on shopping jaunts, pinpointing the stores that offer what you're looking for. Notes Peter Moss: "Many people just accidentally bump into our antiques stores while...
...that's when he bit me. Right there." Cristina Jones extends her hand to show the teeth marks below her thumb on her left hand, where alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid bit her in their struggle aboard Flight 63 high over the Atlantic last December. Hermis Moutardier bears wounds from her battle with Reid too. They're just not so visible...
Their families also suffered. Jones found it difficult to explain to her son Ian what happened on the Paris flight, but she knew she had to explain the bandage on her hand and the marks from Reid's teeth that are still visible below her thumb. "I just told him that a bad man on my flight was trying to hurt people, and in trying to stop him, he hurt me." The 7-year-old said he was proud of his mom, but it was obvious he was also worried for her. In the weeks following the aborted attack...
...phone functions with those of a handheld computer. SMS messaging and e-mailing are effortless, thanks to the handwriting recognition software that allows you to jot a missive on the touchscreen and send it off to someone in your address book with just a couple of taps?no more thumb typing. Even cooler: if you're listening to music through the included headset?the xda can play MP3 files?and a call comes in, the system automatically turns down the volume so you can answer the phone...
...other hand, despite the recent cleanup efforts, the continuing adherence to secrecy leaves Switzerland vulnerable to the accusation that it has something to hide?a charge that makes the Swiss cringe. And despite a historic reflex dating back to William Tell to thumb their noses at the outside world, the Swiss realize they need to maintain good relations with the E.U., which completely surrounds them and accounts for about two-thirds of their trade. "It?s not in our long-term interest to profit from any loopholes," says Urs P. Roth, chief executive of the Swiss Bankers? Association, who nonetheless...