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...remembered Mumbai’s Chabad House as being extremely inaccessible—it sits in a narrow, dark alleyway in the midst of the vast tourist city...
Standing before a crowd of nearly 200 and donning a pair of sunglasses in an already dark room, Gwyneth Lewis—the first National Poet of Wales—belied notions of the tortured poet: in writing good poetry, one must be in a healthy state of mind. Lewis, known for her collection of poetry “Zero Gravity,” spoke on behalf of the Radcliffe Institute during a lecture entitled “The Health of Poetry,” this year’s Julie S. Phelps Annual Lecture...
...altering the body's natural melatonin production, which may help some of the 100 million people who take international flights from the U.S. each year, and the millions more who live in a perpetual state of jet lag due to night-shift work. One strategy is to use light-dark exposure, which helps cue the body's circadian rhythm. British Airways, for example, offers a "jet-lag calculator" that applies research into bright-light therapy to advise passengers when to sit in a pitch-black room and when to seek bright light after a flight...
...girl from southern California and give them a chance to see fans hurl raw fish onto the ice, not going was out of the question. I don’t see the point in boring you with a full travelogue, because given that driving to Ithaca in the dark leaves little to see anyway, I would have very little to write about.However, in our first trip to the Harvard-Cornell match-up, we were able to pick out a number of other “firsts” during the roadtrip experience. The biggest of such moments came when...
...gold-frogged red coat and ostrich-trimmed tricorn hat, Moore embodies the image of Dickensian London long promoted by the city's tourism chiefs to lure foreign visitors at Yuletide. It is now being deployed on this dank, dark morning to tempt customers across the threshold of Liberty's. It's no easy task. London is anticipating its most Dickensian Christmas for years - and there's not likely to be a Christmas Carol-style feel-good ending. (See pictures of Santas gone wild...