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...testify to the fact that it succeeds where Harvard Square's Border Cafe fails. Perhaps this is in reality another nod in Baja's favor. Located in the increasingly yuppified South End, Baja benefits from decor that is unabrasively funky. The windows and the bar are framed by red plastic chile lights, sombreros grace the walls and bright green cactus sculptures are sunk into cavities in the walls. Triangular flags pushing tequila brands are a tribute to kitsch, but the gestalt works well, set off under a trendy corrugated tin roof...
Tucked inside the rows of uneven graves at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, it is easy to believe that the unofficial war in Northern Ireland between Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries continues. Two boys visit a lump of plastic flowers that passes as a fresh grave, the caretaker sweeps a traveled path past still shining headstones marked "IRA Volunteer" and the police surveillance camera hovers atop a thin gray tower across the Falls Road, watching shadowy forms dart among the monuments...
...company's ubiquitous operating system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode at the moment,'' says Dilip Mistry, Windows CE manager for Microsoft's British subsidiary. "I don't think anybody is making money in this...
...view through their windshields. That concern has moved scores of owners and operators of corporate jets, from Prudential Insurance to Planet Hollywood, to install a $9,915 Emergency Vision Assurance System, manufactured by VisionSafe Corp. in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The portable, 5-lb. units inflate to form smoke-free plastic "cocoons" around instrument panels and windshields. Pilots activate the systems--there are two in each cockpit--after donning oxygen masks and goggles. Says mechanical engineer Bertil Werjefelt, who invented the device in the late 1980s and is president of VisionSafe: "There should never be a question for a second whether...
Longing for a touch of elegance in your office? Had your fill of plastic mouse pads? Then you might want to step up to Lextra's MouseRugs ($20 at www.mouserug.com and museum stores). Patterned after Bokhara, Indian and Persian rugs--and decorated with fringe--MouseRugs are made of nylon fibers that feel cozy and help keep dirt from gunking up the mouse ball. Matching floor rugs not included...