Word: dining
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Searles, an intense, ponytailed Ichabod Crane figure, was asked to study the bears and suggest how everybody could get along. The contractor watched them dine at heavily trafficked Dumpsters for nearly a year. He discovered a culture of dominance in which some ate first and others waited. He watched bears urinate and defecate to mark territories. He consulted biologists, who explained that black bears instinctively climb trees rather than attack...
This time Las Vegas is going upmarket, trading showgirl pasties for showy Picassos, $3.99 buffets for $20 entrees at Wolfgang Puck's and neon glitz for European glamour. Soon you will be able to ride a gondola through Venice, dine atop a 50-story Eiffel Tower and surf in the ocean. And you'll be happy to pay up for it, or there will be some very unhappy investors. "The driving feature of Vegas will always be gambling, but the days of giving away rooms to gamblers are over," says Stephen Bollenbach, CEO of Hilton, which is building...
...often that politicians wine and dine other politicians and then brag about it in press releases and television appearances...
...better bozo filter. Filters, as you probably know, allow us to clump together e-mail when it arrives. I have filters that separate into different folders mail to TIME magazine, TIME DAILY and Lunch-L, a mailing list I set up for the six friends I used to dine with every day when I was a newspaper reporter. Outlook went even further by adding a simple bozo filter, which allows me to click on any message, select "Junk Mail" from a drop-down menu, and banish to the slag heap for eternity anything that arrives from that sender. The torrent...
...slides and play areas. (Parents are given pagers to allow them contact with the kid zone.) Teenagers meet for coffee and schmoozing at a jukebox joint called Common Grounds. (And that's teens only, please; two middle-age interlopers were gently escorted out.) As for the grownups, they can dine in a no-kids restaurant--Palo, with decent Northern Italian cuisine--or visit an adults-only comedy club, Off Beat, where the humor is saucy but not blue. No Mickey Viagra gags; after all, this is a Disney ship...