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...full steam ahead for Shanghai's drinking and dining scene these days - and should visitors be unaware of the fact, the name of the city's newest fashionable eatery, a FuturePerfect, blazes from its backlit signboard in a cheerful boast. The brainchild of Frank Steffen, who also owns Shanghai's trendy Arch[an error occurred while processing this directive] bar, a FuturePerfect is located down an alley off Huashan Road, where old men in pajamas squat against shikumen walls...
...that “Project Runway”—the fashion-oriented competition show whose third season aired on Bravo this summer and fall—doesn’t really lend itself to a “Greatest Moments” list. But the show did boast a few one-time occurrences so generally wonderful as to deserve note, and for this reason I humbly submit the following list: 5. Michael Kors’s mother. My initial reaction to Ms. Kors’s appearance, in the middle of an episode where each contestant designed...
...mail servers complaining our inboxes are over quota. Although our official storage space is around 200 megabytes, our e-mail folders cannot exceed 50 percent of that. And even worse, our inbox is limited to 40 megabytes. In these times of free unlimited storage, when companies like Google boast "never delete e-mail again" slogans, our FAS services are unacceptably limited...
...determine sperm count, motility, progression, morphology and freezing traits to ensure that it meets our standards,” according to California Cryobank’s Web site. For James, this was no problem. “I had the right stuff,” he boasts, claiming that the right percentage of his boys were “movin’ and groovin’ like they should.” And James has reason to boast: California Cryobank “demands sperm counts that are higher than the average,” says Pedrussian.However, $900 a month...
After an almost unprecedented shutout in the stiff competition for the 32 Rhodes scholarships awarded to Americans last year, Harvard students rebounded with a vengeance, snagging over a fifth of the scholarships awarded for 2007. As prestigious as the scholarships are, however, they do not boast an innocent history. When Cecil J. Rhodes died in 1902, he left behind the endowment that funds his namesake scholarships to this day and a legacy of exploitation in Southern Africa, where he made a fortune mining diamonds. A champion of British colonialism, Rhodes supported military expansions of British influence in Africa, earning...