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The article looks at the gradual decline of coffeehouses and the introduction of modern cafés in 2009. It recalls the role of cafés in stimulating the creativity among writers in Vienna, Austria in the late 19th century. It emphasizes the connection of coffeehouse experience and newsprint in which coffee and a paper are cited as more powerful combination than coffee and a cigarette. The author explains the kind of disservice shown by laptop users in a coffeehouse in New York.

At the start line, children in team caps and jerseys waved promotional flags as they crowded around the steps to our team bus. They were looking for autographs, a team water bottle, a free team cap, a handshake or a snapshot. They knew our names, had our team cards and had watched us on television through the week as we raced through their countryside. We have been in Austria, racing the Tour of Austria, and the Tour de France has seemed very secondary. The riders here mention the Tour de France in conversations. The announcers mention it briefly over the microphone. But although the local papers cover the action in France, they give preference to the Austrian event. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the Austrian national library has announced that it had bought the papers of Austrian writer Peter Handke for $72,000. Austrian culture minister Claudia Schmied said that the purchase was a way supporting the writer and to make exhaustive center of Handke research. The archive includes the manuscripts of a number of novels and plays.

The article reports that the British historian David Irving pleaded guilty in Austrian court in the last week of February 2006 for denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in jail. Irving, for decades has been drawing fierce criticism for claiming that the Nazi genocide of Jews and others did not happen. Irving told the Austrian court last week that he had changed his views since denying the Holocaust during a 1989 visit to Austria, where making such comments is illegal. The prosecutor in the case accused Irving of making a spurious confession in order to win sympathy with the jury and draw a reduced sentence.

Focuses on the electoral success of Jorg Haider from Autsria's conservative Freedom Party.

Focuses on SOS Mothers and SOS Children's Villages. How it involves trained women committing to raising orphaned and abandoned children in a secure family environment until they are old enough to care for themselves; How the charity was the idea of Austrian Hermann Gmeiner, who started the project in 1949 to help orphans and refugee children after World War II; History of the charity.