Word: abbeys
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...ships tend to be middle-aged or elderly. They have, perhaps, toured Europe's museums and castles as a pleasurable duty imposed years ago by college art history classes. Alaska, not a required course, is an agreeable extra. For Bill and Joan Armstrong of Philadelphia, who had seen Westminster Abbey and the Swiss Alps, the ship itself was an attraction. Gliding by at 20 knots, the view is astonishing: the vast Hubbard and Columbia glaciers tumbling into the ocean, the green islands of the Inside Passage, the jagged, snowblown Chugach mountain range. Landfalls are on a different scale. Skagway...
...store, the left wall is covered with all sorts of Nike, New Balance, and Lacoste sneakers. They also claim to be one of the few stores on the east coast to carry Spring Court, the French brand of shoes that John Lennon wore on the “Abbey Road” album cover. The right wall of the store is lined with up-and-coming trends in male apparel. Some of the real gems in this collection are high-end Levis that can’t be found in most stores. What makes Concepts stand out, though...
...swinging (so to speak) because we're better at it than at other games. Flirting sometimes becomes a social fallback position. "We all learn rules for how to behave in certain situations, and this makes it easier for people to know how to act, even when nervous," says Antonia Abbey, a psychology professor at Wayne State University. Just as we learn a kind of script for how to behave in a restaurant or at a business meeting, she suggests, we learn a script for talking to the opposite sex. "We often enact these scripts without even thinking," she says...
...simple. Flirt the wrong way with the wrong person, and you run the risk of everything from a slap to a sexual-harassment lawsuit. And of course, the American virtue of plainspokenness is not an asset in an activity that is ambiguous by design. Wayne State's Abbey, whose research has focused on the dark side of flirting--when it transmogrifies into harassment, stalking or acquaintance rape--warns that flirting can be treacherous. "Most of the time flirtation desists when one partner doesn't respond positively," she says. "But some people just don't get the message that is being...
...often done with speed, it is bolder, racier and unimpeded by moments of reflection on whether the message could be misconstrued or is wise to send at all. "Flirt texting is a topic everyone finds fascinating, although not much research is out there yet," says Abbey. But one thing is clear: "People are often more willing to disclose intimate details via the Internet, so the process may escalate more quickly...