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...commemorate the hotel's founding, the chef is re-introducing the first dishes served in the dining room, like codfish cakes, German potato pancakes, and cinnamon-raisin bread pudding. With its old-fashioned sitting room, complete with fireplace and comfy reading chairs (and no TVs blaring to disrupt your reverie), the hotel is famous for the surrounding hiking trails, but it also has more modern pursuits like spas and golf. In honor of its century-plus in service, the hotel is discounting rates to $189.90 per person per night, including all meals (usually the rate runs...
...course, with many Asian countries bound together by their dynamic economies, few analysts expect a full-blown arms race that could disrupt the region's growth. Mike McDevitt, a retired U.S. admiral and director of the strategic studies division at the Center for Naval Analyses in Washington D.C., envisions a more tacit struggle for strategic supremacy, based on stealth and surveillance. "There'll be a capabilities competition between the U.S. and China going on for the foreseeable future," he says, with navies seeking to interfere with rival sea lines of communication, probing maritime borders with deep sea patrols likely involving...
...India A MONUMENTAL EFFORT Voting in the world's largest democracy started on April 16, despite violent Maoist attacks intended to disrupt the election that left at least 17 dead. Staggered balloting for the nation's 543 parliamentary seats continues until May 13; counting will begin on May 16. Neither of India's two major parties is expected to win enough seats to declare an overall victory, so a new coalition government--including some of the country's smaller parties--could be formed after the election...
...Just when it appeared that the Crimson was ready to concede defeat, however, Harvard found itself down just four, 25-21, after a kill from Kuld and several attack errors from Rutgers-Newark gave the Crimson another chance to come back.But a timeout from the Scarlet Pioneers would disrupt Harvard’s momentum, and Rutgers-Newark would cruise to a 30-23 victory after registering 15 kills to just five errors in the third set. Meanwhile, the Crimson finished the set hitting a dismal .045 to go along with seven errors.“Anytime that you can?...
...question is intriguing, but mere exposure to fast-moving media may be unlikely to disrupt such deep-rooted emotional responses - ones that, as the study's brain scans show, are intertwined with vital physical functions. Indeed, the findings may even explain why powerful emotions can result in physical sensations. "If you think for a moment of how you react when you are in the presence of somebody you admire - for example, Gandhi - you feel something very deep," says Damasio. "It's not a little thing. It's something that cuts very deep in your person...