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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. –R. D. Laing

But that same Harvard poll shows that 17% of participants said they are avoiding Mexican restaurants or grocery stores and 13% said they thought you could get swine flu from eating pork. You can’t get swine flu from eating pork or any other foods, and there is no reason to avoid Mexican restaurants or other businesses.

You’ve dropped in for an espresso. Your own private barista greets you at the door and guides you to a custom-made, walnut-and-steel espresso-making station, tricked out with a swivel base and hydraulics for raising and lowering the attached grinder. Welded to its main compartment is a built-in, two-group machine, from which the barista pulls your shot. You take your cappuccino, grab a cushion from a stack and toss it onto the concrete, settling into the stadium seating at the back of the coffeehouse.This is the caffeine-by-the-beach experience that Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea plans to debut when its new Venice [California] location opens next month on Abbot Kinney Boulevard.