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...SILVER CYLINDRICAL EDIFICE OF Shibuya 109 (Ichi-maru-kyu in Japanese) shines like a beacon to Japan's teen fashionistas, who journey here every day like the faithful to a holy site. An eight-story, freewheeling, techno-pumping madhouse of 110 boutiques selling clothing, shoes and accessories, Maru Kyu, as it's popularly known, is the one-stop fashion mecca for Tokyo's high-school-girl hipsters, who not only pump billions into Japan's economy each year but also drive trends in hemlines, hair color and heel height from Singapore to Shanghai and beyond. In less than a decade...
Perhaps some would say that Dartboard’s despair is a little over-the-top, but she has heard the same cries from others. Cereal is the one beacon of hope lying between you and that pathetic food in the vat before you. It’s purpose? That you may have one moment of dietary joy to light up your ever-so-banal existence...
...parental units are gone, and with a day left of summer, it seems as though the last strains of a saccharine melody are still ringing in our ears. The clock above the Citizens’ Bank proclaims the minutes and hours to our little world—a beacon to students late for class and a constant reminder of the exacting pace of college life. Cambridge is a far cry from rural Canada, where I spent my summer camped in an eastern township of Quebec and had to chop wood in order to get a hot meal...
...election and they may start getting ideas of their own. Before you know it, the world's despots would be forced to hold local elections or deal with rowdy citizens who have had a taste of democracy and again look to the U.S. as a beacon. There could be no accusations of unilateralism, and less need to invade. People everywhere will have made their choice in the one election that really matters. Honestly, we don't want too much. Treat us like the 51st state (hey, you already do!) and give us 50 electoral votes in the complicated U.S. system...
...Suffolk District, which includes Cambridgeport and the MIT area as well as Boston’s Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods, unofficial results showed Martha Walz handily defeating Kristine Glynn for the Democratic nomination...