European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Thursday december 23,1993 Atlanta apr gov. Zell Miller has rejected Atlanta bar owners pleas to change a state Law and allow Early alcohol sales on super bowl sunday. Barkeeper say they will lose thousands of dollars be cause Georgia Law prohibits the Sale of alcohol until 12 30 . On sundays. An estimated 100,000 visitors arc expected for the Jan. 30 game in the Georgia dome Quot people Are coming Here with their wallets open. They Are ready to spend Money and we Aren t letting them a said Mike Small managing director of jocks n jills sports bars. "1 think owners May do what they want and risk  Small said he and other businesses have written Mill or asking for changes in the sunday liquor Law calling it an Quot embarrassment for the City during the super bowl Small said the Atlanta bar owners believe it is unfair that state Law allows the Georgia dome and the adjacent Georgia world Congress Center to serve alcohol anytime after 10 . Quot they arc putting the state owned facility in direct Competition with private business a said Reggie Mitchell owner of Reggie a pub at the can Center near the stadium. But Miller s spokesman Rick Dent said the governor will oppose changing the Law especially with the Kickoff set for 6 18 . Quot the governor feels that five hours is enough. Why do they need any More Quot Dent said. But Mitchell and others disagreed. Quot people want to have a bite to cat and have a bloody Mary with their meal a Mitchell said. Quot we just done to understand Why this should be. Visitors done to under stand it either a Quot for something like the super bowl or the world series they definitely Are going to drink in the morning a said Dennis Fernandez manager of three Dollar cafe in the Buckhead area North of downtown. Sunday alcohol sales have posed a problem in other super bowl cities in recent years. At the 1992 super bowl in Minneapolis restaurants and bars had to Wail until 10 . To begin serving alcohol to comply with state Law. As in Georgia sunday package sales Are not allowed in Minnesota. At the 1991 super bowl in Tampa liquor by the drink and package sales were restricted until after noon because of Florida a liquor statutes. Last january in Pasadena however there was no problem because there Are no sunday alcohol restrictions in California. Go on to get Cambridge mass apr once upon a time children used crayons to write letters to Santa Claus asking him to bring toys and games. Now some kids get. Their messages to the North pole in a Flash via cyberspace. _. And some Jolly old elves reply posthaste by email. The replies from Santa Are free but people pay a monthly fee to one of several companies to be connected through phone lines to one of several computer networks. Four year old Lxi Cahill got her wish list on Santa s Workbench within seconds Courtesy of Delphi internet services inc in Cambridge. "1 want a doll that talks when he watches a video. Also please bring me the things i asked you for at the mall since i done to remember my list now a she typed on her Home computer. Her message got a Swift response Quot hoho to. Thanks for the letter. In a looking Forward to stopping at your Home on Christmas eve. I re member you from the mall and ill do my Best to get All you wish for on Christmas a began the reply from a Christmas Elf. Scott Mandill director of digital nation an on line service in Arlington. Va., logs on to his Home computer after work and fashions such personal replies to each letter writer about 1,000 of them so far. About one third of his letters come from adults asking for expensive cars belter relationships engagement rings and Good College grades Quot a Bunch of us at the office were trying to think of some fun Holiday thing to do. Its gone off amazingly Well a he said in a phone interview from Arlington. Other High tech paths to Santa Are offered to subscribers by such on line services As Prodigy and Genie. Prodigy has received 8,000 letters this month. Rusty Williams vice president of Delphi said internet which links millions of computer owners worldwide is the perfect vehicle for such communications. A the internet is a give and take culture a said Williams whose company provides Access to the network. Scott Mandill director of digital nation sits in his Arlington va., Home and helps Santa answer letters sent by children via email from throughout the United states Quot its inherent in the nature of people who interact on the internet. Some ask questions some answer questions its give and take Down to a personal  most children though still write letters to Santa the old fashioned Way and sometimes people make their visions of sugarplum come True. The Boston Post office gathers letters of needy children addressed to the North pole and gives them to people who want to act in the Jolly Elf a behalf said spokesman Mike Doyle. Quot if they re written by children the sincerity of them is very apparent a Doyle  freaks get abstract View of . Life Washington a want to know the . Metro area with the highest income or most asian residents How much lettuce americans cat or How much of our paper is recycled you re in Luck a the 113th edition of the statistical abstract of the United states is on Sale. Well two of them actually. But they re the same. Inside Are 1,008 pages that it vill Delight students and teachers writers and researchers statisticians and demographers. One can discover on Page 143, for example that the average american chomps Down More than 26 pounds of iceberg lettuce every year. Personal per capita income for metropolitan areas is listed on Page 452, it shows the highest As $28,097 in West Palm Beach Boca Raton Fla. Page 40 shows that 1,3 million asians and Pacific islanders live in the los Angeles Riverside Orange county area of California. And Page 684 discloses that in 1992, recycled paper accounted for 38 percent of the paper used in the country. This is the second year that numbers fans will have a choke of abstracts. The official government version Sells for $27 at government bookstores and via mail from the National technical information service. But there also is a private version called the american almanac statistical abstract of the United states. The reference press of Austin Texas bought the printing negatives and is issuing its own edition Selling for $14.95 in commercial bookstores. The privately published version is a Little thicker because of its heavier paper and sales director Dana l. Smith said she Hopes to improve on last year s sales of 9,000 copies. The government Sells about 40,000 copies a year and the census bureaus Glen King said he is pleased to have Competition. A a it a reaching a Market that we can to reach so we re Happy to see sales of the Book no matter who Sells it go up a King said. So what else can you learn from this Tome a Between 1990 and 1991, food production fell 0.6 percent in Industrial nations and increased 1.9 percent in devel Oping countries Page 867, a the United slates admitted 1.8 million immigrants in 1991, about half from Mexico Page 13. A a a americans paid an average of $1,894 each in income tax in 1990 Page 341. A cities of 1 million or More accounted for 13 percent of americans in 1990, Down from 15 percent in 1960 Page 42. A americans in 1991 owned 57 million cats 52.5 million dogs 11.7 million Birds and 4.9 million horses Page 250. A the United states had 333 breweries in 1991, up from just 86 in 1980 Page 758. A the environmental Industry generated $134 billion in Revenue and employed 1.1 million people in 1992, up from $100 billion and 860,000 workers four years earlier