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Your sexiest physical trait: I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve always thought I had nice wrists...
SMALL TREATS Nanjing, unlike many Chinese cities, doesn't boast about its tasty snacks. While Shanghainese love to brag about their steamed pork buns and Beijingers crow about their boiled dumplings, Nanjing keeps its particular brand of xiao chi, or little snacks, under wraps. The best way to sample Nanjing's unsung delectables at their most authentic is to join the early morning crowds in the Wenchang Xiang neighborhood, a few blocks from People's Square. You'll find dozens of dexterous cooks already up and kneading, shaping, frying and baking all manner of snacks...
...during the first week of June, they will embarrass you. Especially your grandparents. They will fuss over you and ask you if you’ve eaten and tell your roommates stories about that time when you were little and got sick from eating paste. They’ll brag about all the wonderful things you’re doing after graduation and tell anyone who will listen that you’re going to save the world someday...
...Hours: Alcohol in a Woman's Life. "They associate drinking with power, and they think that if they drink like a guy, they will be like a guy." At the University of Colorado at Boulder, where frequent binge drinking among women rose 67% between 1993 and 2000, women routinely brag of matching men in alcohol consumption. Sarah, 21, describes a "keg stand"--two friends suspend you by your ankles over a keg, and you guzzle as much cheap beer as quickly as you can--and beams: "There are girls who can go longer than guys!" It's not just other...
Teachers' salaries have never been anything for our society to brag about, but the financial sacrifices are bigger than many suspect. According to a study provided to TIME by the research firm Quality Education Data, a division of Scholastic, U.S. elementary school teachers spend more than $1 billion a year of their own money on supplies for their classrooms. The average teacher's personal contribution is a surprising $521 annually, 35% more than what the school provides them with to buy such things as paperbacks, software, instructional posters and art supplies. Teachers, with an average salary...