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...limited time, anyway. Shortly before 11 a.m., another severe storm rumbled through St. Louis, knocking out the electricity for another 200,000; the St. Louis Coffee Oasis was no longer an Internet oasis. Blakely could only laugh as she shut off her laptop. "At least I had the Internet for a few minutes," she mused. "But I still don't know what's going on in the city." Had she been able to log on, Blakely would have learned of water boiling orders, the arrival of the National Guard, forced evacuations, sold-out gas stations, booked hotels and power outages...
...nearby table, three young men also had shut their laptops in disbelief. Like Blakely, they'd also lost the power in the storm. But their 7th?floor apartment proved too hot and they've spent the past 36 hours staying with nearby friends and perusing free wi-fi wherever they could find it. "I like to think we're European backpackers," said Dave Aronberg...
...services - accused BETonSPORTS founder Gary Kaplan, 47, of tax evasion, and issued a warrant for his arrest. The firm was also ordered to suspend sports betting from the U.S., and return money held by its U.S. account holders. The company said it was reviewing the indictment, and has since shut down its website, BETonSPORTS.com...
...human cost has been far greater: 11 members of IraQna's workforce of 400 have been abducted by terrorists, and two remain missing. Sawiris once shut down IraQna for a couple of days to compel the release of some of his employees. Insurgents, he explains, don't like to be without service. And IraQna has turned out to be a relatively safe bet financially compared with Orascom's adventures in Syria and Yemen, where Orascom was muscled out of partnerships in both countries, says Sawiris, with the Arab regimes there affording no protection or legal recourse. That behavior...
...edge as they slice through walls of water, but surfers are traditionalists by nature. For more than 40 years, as many as 9 out of 10 American wave riders have relied on one supplier of blank or unfinished boards: Gordon (Grubby) Clark. Last December when the old man slammed shut the doors of Clark Foam, in Laguna Niguel, Calif., he unleashed a tsunami. Some small businesses that had been shaping and finishing Clark's polyurethane (PU) boards simply wiped out; panic over supply swept the industry. But Clark's departure may turn out to be the best thing to happen...