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...style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder which are available only at the invitation of Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the U.A.E. Mere mortals can content themselves with the hotel's other wings, where standard rooms begin at a heart-stopping $625 a night. They do, however, come with high-faluting technology (including touch-pad controls and 50-in. plasma...
...God’s name” (and who always omit gender-specific pronouns in their prayer books). It’s those faithful people who ordain women, gays and lesbians, and express their respect and even love for those who believe differently. They will remind you that Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, the IRA, Hamas, the settlers on the West Bank, even the Pope, are all perverting the true meaning of religion (in different ways, to different degrees) for their political gains. They will tell you that just because religion is used for evil doesn?...
...black curtain unfurling in front of us. In 20 sec., all we could see were the pin lights along the floor. As we stood to evacuate, there was a loud thump. In a crowd of experienced flight attendants, still someone had hit his or her head on an overhead bin. In a new situation, with a minor amount of stress, our brains were performing clumsily. As we filed toward the exit slide, crouched low, holding on to the person in front of us, several of the flight attendants had to be comforted by their colleagues...
Drawing upon sources as diverse as long-classified FBI records arid the Wellesley Magazine, Seagrave, a journalist who grew up on the China-Burma border, feverishly ransacks the past. He resurrects old Shanghai and recollects, in passing, such spicy background scenes as the sailors' prison in San Francisco, a "bin full of murderers, cutthroats, sodomists, and mutineers dredged from the leaky hulls that jammed the docks." He also does some riffs on Chinese secret societies, the erotic kinks of foot-bound "sing-song girls," and the power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce...
Like The White Stripe’s “Fell In Love With A Girl” video, “Dream” takes its visual motif from the toy bin. Instead of Legos, “Dream” features bubble-headed marionettes and dollhouse-scale tin cars and airplanes...