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...aroma of xiao chi, or street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury-rigged cooler lashed to the back. He rings a bell and awaits his next customer. But he looks in no hurry; in time, they will come...
...Haviland, the league’s 2006 Pitcher of the Year, taking the ball for Harvard and Christian Staehely, who earned the preseason nod for the same honor this season, on the mound for the Tigers.After a few mediocre non-conference outings, Haviland proved that he is still the cream of the Ancient Eight pitching crop, turning in eight-plus innings and allowing three earned runs on eight hits. “It’s one you circle on your calendar anyway,” Haviland said, “because it’s been us or them...
...older women over, Dove puts a positive spin on the unhappy moment when a woman buys her first jar of antiwrinkle cream. "The concept is linguistically brilliant," says Cheryl Swanson, a managing partner at Toniq, a brand-strategy firm in New York City. "Skin care has typically been about fighting back--age defying. It's been almost warrior-like. Take a stance against this natural thing that's happening to you. This is different." The strategy tells women, implicitly, that they can look better without trying too hard...
...targeted to women in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. "It's all about looking your best at any age," says Carol Hamilton, president of L'Oral Paris. Last spring the company signed the actress Diane Keaton, 61, to be the spokeswoman for Age Perfect Pro-Calcium skin cream, a product for "mature, fragile skin...
What, you ask, is a mini macaron? It's a bite-sized version of its larger cousin, a delicate but explosive cream-filled, pastel-colored meringue cookie as cheery as an Easter egg and sweet as a stolen kiss. It's an indulgence, a passion, then an obsession. In other words, it's the ultimate French confection. Paris is divided into two camps: those who hold that the best mini macarons come from Ladurée, and those that swear by Pierre Hermé. This is a somewhat academic debate, since Hermé worked at Ladurée before opening...