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...Eleven stores thought about putting pointed lids on trash cans and flooding their premises with halogen lights. Finally the shops hit on the ultimate weapon: playing saccharine tunes guaranteed to send adolescents screeching into the night. Says 7-Eleven spokeswoman Margaret Chavris: "They won't hang around and tap their feet to Mantovani." Most teens agree. "Can you believe this nonsense?" says Ray LaVerne, 18, at Southland's store in Tillicum, Wash...
Swaminathan Asokan dreams of water. It gushes out of a giant tap and fills bucket after bucket. But then he wakes up -- to a nightmare. For at Asokan's house in Madras, India's fourth largest city, there is no water. The tap has long been dry. So he must get up in the dark of night and, laden with plastic pails, take a five-minute walk down the street to a public tap. Since the water flows only between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., Asokan, 34, a white-collar worker at a finance company, tries to be there...
...plan is more easily proposed than accomplished. The U.S. last week suggested a tight naval blockade of Iraqi and Kuwaiti ports, but it has yet to find many takers among its allies. Halting the oil in the pipelines would mean persuading Turkey and Saudi Arabia to shut off the tap, or turn a blind eye while the U.S. blew up the lines. Both countries are vulnerable to Iraqi reprisals, especially Saudi Arabia...
Theme parks may be better known for flume rides and cruise ships for bingo, but from Disney to Opryland to Hersheypark, they are becoming the summer theaters of the '90s: the places where growing numbers of tyro thespians, crooners and tap dancers get their first experience performing before live audiences...
...Judy Garland were making a movie about stagestruck kids today, they probably wouldn't mount a musical in the backyard and wait for lightning to strike. Nor would they necessarily look for a summer-stock barn or tent, like so many fledgling players of times past. Instead, the tyro tap dancers, crooners and thespians would probably hie themselves to the nearest theme park or cruise ship to audition for a job. Theme parks may be more conspicuous for flume rides and cotton candy, and cruise ships may be best known for bingo and buffets. But they have become the summer...