Your guide to the West.
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When is a vacation not really one?
Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard UNION, Wash. - I am sitting on the deck of an old cabin on the Hood Canal, a 60-mile fishhook-shaped inlet of saltwater on the Olympic Peninsula. I am on vacation, feeling incredibly fortunate and incredibly stupid. Fortunate because,...

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Peso appreciates to P53.562 The peso appreciated against the US dollar to P53.562, the weighted average rate pegged at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines yesterday, from P53.667 the previous day. The local currency closed at P53.45. The total volume amounted to...

Special access to www.sunset.com. (Online News).
Sunset.com gives readers more of what they love about Sunset, including thousands of travel, garden, home, and food articles, recipes, and seasonal guides. As a special benefit to our readers, we've decided to make that archive an exclusive service to magazine subscribers and newsstand buyers. It also will be...

Make 'em sweat.
Congratulations to NATIONAL REVIEW and the Media Research Center on your comprehensive report on our biased media and their coming meltdown. At last you guys are making noises about applying free-market principles to media that mislead readers and viewers. If a long-distance phone company or a car...

Dear Me; Job Hunt.
Byline: MARK DEAR ME, Why must a person look for a job? Why cant he just stay at home and live life to the fullest (while the cable TV is on)? Because sometimes (especially when theres a killjoy kin usually an Aunt,) he...

City Desk: Towers Still.
It has been brought to my attention that the icon for this column is inaccurate, since the skyline formed by the steam that rises from the coffee mug beside the typewriter still includes the World Trade Towers. Of course the typewriter is also inaccurate -- it is years since...

A note to contributors.
Over the next few months Quadrant will be setting up its own website. Initially, this will carry a table of contents, the editorial, and some features of the magazine. Ultimately we hope to provide a major part of the magazine online, as well as an archive of earlier issues...

Believers and belligerents.
London has long been popular with Middle Eastern visitors. Many Arabs have made the city their home. Traditional Arab dress on both men and women is commonplace throughout areas in the west of the capital. Typically Middle Eastern foodstuffs, such as dates, tabouleh and tins of Egyptian foul mesdame beans...

UK Start-up ISP Offers Unified Messaging.
Another subscription-free ISP has launched in the UK, this time offering a unified messaging service as its value-added gimmick. Contact Box Ltd's Contact Box service offers a fax and voice mail redirect that sends messages to the user's email address as .vox and .tif attachments. Users also have the...