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...resent your attitude that travel in Europe must be expensive to be good. An intimate pension in Florence, an inn on a quiet beach on Mykonos or a quaint hotel in London: that is the kind of place people prefer today. Many American tourists do not care where the Hilton is, and do not spend $10 on breakfast in Rome...
...time before the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s-drive-ins were "the only place to go for some privacy," recalls Manhattanite Vicki Slate, 40. "We certainly couldn't go to his house or my house. Our parents would have killed us!" According to the quaint ritual of the time, families would park in the front rows, teen-agers who were just dating would take up the middle rows, and those who were bent on serious petting would head for the darker areas in back. Most teen-agers now have other ways of finding privacy...
Coffee may not seem too appealing this time of year, but don't lot that keep you from sampling the Square's oh-so-artsy cafes; there are dozens of reasons why people flock to the quaint, overpriced coffeehouses and drinking coffee most certainly is not one of them...
Each of the leaders left quaint, historic Williamsburg in a position to claim at least token success. The French, fearful for their falling franc, won an agreement, albeit a decidedly vague one, that measures would be studied to stabilize currency markets. The Japanese escaped direct criticism of their own trade policies while joining in a general condemnation of protectionism. And all of America's trading partners extracted an admission from Washington that uncontrolled budget deficits contribute to rising interest rates and threaten to sap the strength of the budding global recovery. The conferees made no concrete pledges about...
...type of pen wielded by a forger can be a giveaway. The quaint quill was used exclusively until 1780, when its successor, the steel pen, came into existence. The difference in writing between the two can be seen under a microscope. Fiber-tipped pens were not used extensively in the U.S. until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure...