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That's quite a growth spurt considering that cybercafes are founded on the odd proposition that people will leave their home computer and trek to a bar--just so they can stare at a computer screen again. "People think it is asocial to sit at a computer terminal at a cafe," says Nicholas Barnes, the co-owner of Manhattan's @ Cafe. "But you can sit at the computer and discuss world politics with the people next to you or people in Singapore." Many singles, in fact, are finding cyberboites a congenial place for real, as opposed to virtual, mingling...
Instead the Rangers are overwhelmed by Mexican soldiers, and the survivors reach Santa Fe in chains after an agonizing mountain trek. The novel's plan is not much different, in fact, from that of Lonesome Dove or Streets of Laredo: an incredibly difficult journey that no prudent soul would have undertaken, with a psychopathic Comanche (Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove, Buffalo Hump here) skulking in the shadows to pick off stragglers...
...unfolded was high drama in itself. Around nightfall last Tuesday, a dusty convoy of military Land Rovers bounced over an unfenced sector of Jordan's border escorting Mercedes-borne worthies who turned out to be the presidential kinsmen. Exhausted and parched, the travelers had made a 14-hour desert trek to evade detection. Water was their first request. "They drank tens of bottles," related a high Jordanian security official. Though the inadequately provisioned party had seemingly departed on the run, the journey was not quite spontaneous. The Jordanian official said Hussein Kamel had visited Amman 10 days earlier to warn...
...ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It sponsored Ken Burns' TV series on the Civil War, as well as the definitive edition of the Thomas Alva Edison papers and the first complete printed version of the journals kept by Lewis and Clark on their epic trek across the West. It funds local history centers, educational programs at all levels and the unending task of preserving millions of old documents and brittle newspapers, both physically and on microfilm. And much more, including the great Library of America series of American literary classics, co-sponsored...
Things really got bad during the third week. I was having dinner between sections, and a worker came up to me and asked, "Are you okay?" I openly wondered if I was the admission committee's social mistake. On the solitary trek to dinner, fluorescent pink Room 13 posters screamed "EATING ALONE IN THE UNION?" from every kiosk...