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...Ultimately, though, the high-low collaborative trend may be little more than a fad. Because Japan's fashion industry depends on such a juvenile clientele, designers have had to adjust to even briefer fashion cycles. One top design house in Tokyo estimates that in order to satisfy the ever fickle tastes of young Japanese patrons, domestic labels have had to double their output compared with European clothiers'. The endless search for the next new thing, dubbed shinhatsubai in Japanese, affects everything from orange juice at the convenience store, which contains less pulp in the summer months, to ever so slightly...
...shuttle buses will run less frequently and no longer stop at the river Houses or Union Dorms this summer, after the Summer School Dean’s office decided Tuesday to adjust the schedule in response to requests by Quad residents and a study of ridership patterns...
This may require some re-education, a kind of summer school of play that teaches kids not to expect to be entertained every moment, to adjust to days measured out not in periods or practices but in large clumps of opportunity called Morning and Afternoon. Go build a fort. Use every single art supply in the house to make something big. Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul...
...weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate." WWW.GOOGLE.COM, satirical alert to users of the search engine who type in the words "weapons of mass destruction" and then click on the box labeled "I'm Feeling Lucky...
...public mood has altered so sharply in just the past few weeks that even those who want to maintain the status quo have had to adjust their positions. Consider the change in fortune for the ill-named Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the biggest pro-China political party in Hong Kong. People voted for them in the 1995 Legco elections because the handover was about to happen?ever-practical Hong Kongers didn't want to elect a combative legislature that was sure to invite a crackdown from Beijing. But these days, the people are watching what...