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...fair-trade labels are buying used items, too, she says. So far, secondhand merchandise accounts for half the shop's sales. On a recent weekday morning, a range of shoppers, young and old, came in to browse or buy. Twentysomething Caroline Dunlevy, who was making her second visit since the boutique opened, admitted it's changed her perception of what a charity shop could be. "It's really a cut above the others," she said. Real quality is always good for a second go-round, especially if the price is right...
...Yeltsin Visits Japan President Boris Yeltsin made an uneventful visit to Tokyo for two days and met with Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. By leaving Russia just one week after he suppressed the coup by retrograde parliamentarians, he flaunted his confidence that he was in control...
...business of trying to anticipate trouble that consumes him and marks a major difference between his corporate and political lives. ''In the corporate experience, you had more time to think, more time to visit individuals, more time to look around at the organization,'' Regan declares. ''The problems are brought to you here. I miss my ability to, it's not quite snoop, but to look around rather than to have it fed to you through others all the time.'' If the day ever comes when he talks to students of Government about running the White House, Regan will hammer...
Ever since the disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and buried in unusually deep graves; that vodka and red wine are effective antidotes to radiation. During a visit to Budapest, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told Hungarian factory workers, ''Chernobyl has warned us once again: man has set in operation a really fantastic force that must be strictly controlled.'' It was a telling message that surely reverberated last week through the lifeless silence of Pripyat...
...Obama would be a huge win for the Arabs," says government bureaucrat Saadun Abbas, smiling. "If he was coming here as President, then of course this visit would help [Iraq] a lot. But any visit [he makes] as a candidate is just for campaign publicity...