Word: beachings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those who dream of cooking like the pros, spending a week in a continuing-education program at the CIA provides a unique travel and learning experience without having to enroll full time in cooking school. "These are not people who want to sit on a beach. They want to know that they've created something by the end of the day," says Mark Erickson, master chef and vice president for continuing education...
Many indies have also exploited the Starbucks backlash. Mike Sheldrake, owner of Polly's Gourmet Coffee in Long Beach, Calif., was losing money before he reformatted with an anti-corporate feel, highlighting his giant antique coffee roaster and telling baristas to remember regular customers' names. He has been profitable ever since. "It's as close to a hometown watering hole as you can get," says client Howard Homan, a retired civil servant...
...bear approaching. One guy drops his backpack and starts running, while his buddy stays put, frozen in fear. "You can't outrun a bear," shouts the guy standing still. "I know," replies the sprinter. "I just have to outrun you." --With reporting by Matt Baron/Evanston, Deborah Edler Brown/Long Beach and Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis
...Although this summer's visitors included former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Issyk-Kul now draws a more mixed crowd. "The best kebabs in Central Asia, then the discos and, in the morning, the beach" is how my city-slicker friend Aidai described the lake's attractions as we set out. By late afternoon we were lolling on cushions in a garden caf?, munching on skewers of delicious grilled meat...
...bring the kids as new-product testers), it's loud. At Sega, guys in suits sit at a huge bank of monitors playing Quake Arena. Over at Global VR, conventioneers wearing huge, teardrop-shaped, bright yellow virtual-reality helmets blast away at enemy soldiers in the immersive war game Beach Head 2002. At Triotech Amusement, Tom Revolinsky, vice president of operations for Cleveland Coin Machine Exchange, a national arcade operator, unfolds himself from Ballistics, a high-speed outer-space racing game with realistic seat-rattling technology. "It was a fun game," he says a little woozily, sweat dotting his forehead...