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What seems to satisfy mom-and-pop customers most is a quality that the chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw...
...George Bush prepared to attend Emperor Hirohito's funeral in February, a top aide alerted him to a problem that would once have been considered unworthy of presidential attention. Since Japanese furniture makers are eager for tropical hardwoods, officials in western Brazil hoped that Tokyo would finance the paving of a 500-mile road that would link the Amazon to a Peruvian highway, allowing lumberers to truck their timber directly to Pacific ports. But the plan, Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gates cautioned the President, would subject the western Amazon to more of the slash-and-burn land clearing that...
Most Harvard undergraduates do not fit the cliche that all students are apathetic. But an area that does deserve increased student attention is the conduct of the University we attend. The Undergraduate Council is the place to begin building this interest...
...interested in public service, this year's Career Forum offers some very useful opportunities. True, the Forum is comprised mainly of forprofit companies - unable to spend either the personnel or the money to attend such an event. Nonetheless, there will be agencies working on a variety of issues: housing (Committee for Boston Public Housing), health (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), international development (Peace Corps), human services (New York City Dept. of Personnel), and teaching abroad (World Teach...
...Orientation Meetings for Spring Recruitingwill be held on Monday, November 6th at 4:00 p.m.in the Science Center, Room "C", or on Tuesday,November 7th at 4:00 p.m. in the Science Center,Room "C". In order to participate in SpringRecruiting, you must attend one of these sessions.No exceptions will be made. At these meetings allmaterials pertaining to Spring Recruiting will behanded out. We will also thoroughly explain thepoint system, computer forms, time tables,deadlines and all other information necessary forsuccessful participation in the Spring RecruitingProgram. We will answer all your questions at thistime...