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I work as a producer at Lycos, Inc, the search company. I'm currently developing Community Guides, and working on various other editorial projects, including expanding news coverage. I also did the Lycos Year in Review.

For the past four years, I was a Producer/Writer at CNN International, working at the CNN Center in Atlanta (seen to the right). I produced a daily newscast World News Europe,seen at 22:00 CET daily. The show focusses on news of European politics and society, while also including the day's important stories from other regions of the world. It is anchored from London by Hilary Bowker.

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I grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, then moved to Atlanta to work for CNN. I married Robin Faigeles Abrams on June 9, 1996, and moved back to the Boston area this summer. We have no children or pets.

• My main personal indulgence is a love of tea. At home, I choose from 24 varieties of tea (as well as 8 types of herbal tea). My favorite tea link is The World of Tea. I also read the Tea-time Mailing List
• I am also a news junkie. When I'm at home, I loyally surf to CNN World News.
• Following the news, like following the NBA, is more fun if you have certain favorite countries to root for. So I get excited whenever certain stories are in the news. Among them are the Comoro Islands, a small chain in the Indian Ocean that have seen 17 coups in two decades of independence, including many led by notorious French mercenary Bob Denard. News Flash: Anjouan, the second-largest of the Comoros, has declared its independence and desire to be part of France again, something the Comorian government and France want nothing to do with.
• Another favorite story is the Biker War in Scandinavia. El Bandidos are fighting it out in Stockholm and Copenhagen against the Hell's Angels, with anti-tank weapons. The very idea of this happening in tranquil Scandinavia appeals to my sense of absurdity. As far as search engines tell me, there is no web site link for this story. This summer, they signed a truce, although there is speculation that they simply agred on turf divisions.
• I'm a voracious reader, and always in the midst of more than one book.
  Among books I've recently enjoyed:
  • Non-fiction: Tales from a Travelling Couch, by Robert Akeret, a series of case studies by a psychiatrist, who followed up odd patients decades after ending treatment (this was recommended by Robin); Engineers of Dreams by Henry Petroski, a history of great bridges and their builders; Out of Egypt by André Aciman, a fascinating memoir of a wacky Jewish family in Alexandria, Egypt; and Café Europa by Slavenka Drakulic, a collection of essays about the Balkans in transition, which I found fascinating despite protracted respites from it.
  • Fiction: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klíma, a novel about Czechs adapting to the Velvet Revolution; Typical American by Gish Jen, a novel about Chinese immigrants trying to create a life in America; and Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer, a hilarious black comedy about a young basketball player scrambling to deal with communism in Hungary.
• A couple of friends with homepages: •  Roy Wadia  •   Rob Johnson

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