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...generation, ATMs are being wired to the World Wide Web. These machines can pay insurance premiums and utility bills, print cashier's checks and road maps, and sell everything from stocks to dvds. ATM users have bought tickets to a David Bowie concert in Iceland and soccer matches in Spain. Customers in Singapore can apply for a car title. In the U.S., Wells Fargo has installed 1,100 souped-up ATMs in 16 Western states that can show movie trailers and the msnbc news ticker, run streaming-video ads during transactions and spit out coupons before the customer...
Officials from Britain and Spain meet this month for further talks on the territory's future. The two countries are closer to agreement than at any point since 1713, when the King of Spain, under the Treaty of Utrecht, ceded sovereignty "in perpetuity" to the Crown of Great Britain. Spain has been fighting to get Gibraltar back ever since, and both sides hope that this historic dispute between two E.U. members will be sorted out by summer - at least at the bilateral level - most likely with a draft proposal for phased-in shared sovereignty...
...Gibraltarians, though, there's little to sort out. They're British. A typical family living on this outcrop of pine-dotted rock at the mouth of the Mediterranean may have roots in Ireland, Italy, Malta, Morocco and, yes, Spain. But a stroll down Main Street shows that the biggest cultural influence has been Britain. Letters go into mailboxes - no, postboxes - marked with the Queen's monogram. Conversations, though in the vernacular Spanglish, are peppered with Briticisms like "bloke" and a car's "boot." And tea-time at the Rock Hotel means fresh scones and cucumber sandwiches with the crusts...
...Gibraltarians, these are small cultural signs of a deep loyalty. "There's really no need for all this hassle between Britain and Spain," says Karen Diaz, who believes that Spain's government, not its people or its culture, is the problem. Like many Gibraltarians, Diaz often hops over the border to see friends in Spain. Her family even speaks Spanish at home. But, she says, "I'll be Spanish over my dead body." And only against the votes of Gibraltarians. The territory's constitution says that any change in sovereignty must be approved by referendum. In the last...
...generation, ATMs are being wired to the World Wide Web. These machines can pay insurance premiums and utility bills, print cashier's checks and road maps, and sell everything from stocks to DVDs. ATM users have bought tickets to a David Bowie concert in Iceland and soccer matches in Spain. Customers in Singapore can apply for a car title. In the U.S., Wells Fargo has installed 1,100 souped-up ATMs in 16 Western states that can show movie trailers and the MSNBC news ticker, run streaming-video ads during transactions and spit out coupons before the customer...