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...ages. One interesting trait is people in their seventies and eighties who knew the original store owner, Matthew. They come in and remark on the changes. They knew a smaller store in a simpler time. It's a lot more diverse now--everything is--and they note the change. A lot of them seem put off by it," he says...
...storyline is a bit simpler than its flashbacks and interrupted narrative make it out to be. Just a bit. Thomas (Don McKellar) is a gay petstore owner who makes ends meet by smuggling exotic pets into Canada for private collectors. Francis (Bruce Greenwood) is a smug tax auditor by day, a patron of Exotica, a table dancing club, by night...
...simpler combinations of technologies could be used to create highly efficient urban-transportation systems. Buses, subways and private cars would be superfluous under a plan proffered by Nobel laureate Arno Penzias at Bell Laboratories. In his vision, a fleet of passenger vans, each equipped with a global-positioning system and cellular phone (plus whatever amenities its operator chose to offer) -- all linked by computer to a central dispatching program, would provide total customized coverage of every street and every neighborhood in town, 24 hours...
...didn't want three dozen roses or dinner at the Ritz; I'm pretty low-maintenance when it comes to that sort of thing. My aspirations were simpler: I wanted to wake up, work out, go to class, put in a few hours at my job, do some reading and go to bed. No angst, no stress, and no Godiva hangover the next morning. I actually thought I could survive the 24 hours separating February 13 from February 15 without experiencing major emotional crisis...
...many international students at Harvard, the Internet is a quick and convenient means of staying in touch with far away family and friends. Maintaining contact with scattered pals is simpler in cyberspace, where costly postage and long distance service are not at issue, say several undergraduates...