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Week of Aug. 31, 2008

The Coffee Shop
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There's a small corner café in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that serves what reporter Megan Williams declares is "the best cup of coffee in the city." A former waitress runs it. She worked at a restaurant across the street that shut down.

Faced with unemployment, her regular customers at the restaurant — taxi drivers — came to her aid by clearing a spot where they had parked their cars and set up a kitchen, some plastic tables and chairs, and created a coffee shop.

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