Word: dwelling
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...Italian piazza than a sterile airport food court. What's particularly refreshing is the distinctive food offerings, such as the first-ever airport Sylvia's, a branch of the famous Harlem soul-food restaurant, and Erwin's Glatt Kosher Deli. This airport wants you to visit: the so-called dwell time, the minutes you spend pre- or postflight, is estimated to be a longer-than-average four hours...
Ironically, then, to state it mildly, because of my 4000-yuan monthly salary, Alice might one day earn closer to it than she does now; because of the relatively luxurious conditions in which I dwell, Alice might one day experience better than she currently does. Until then, the disparities that make me wonder why she doesn’t hate me are part of, and perhaps the price of, development...
...Tube or at the lunch counter, can't quite add up to a book you're likely to read straight through. No matter, because the first six chapters alone are worth the cover price. Diamond's brutal debunking of alternative therapies such as homeopathy, reflexology and herbalism doesn't dwell on the scientific particulars. But why should it? You could have read a thousand times - perhaps in magazines like this one - that there's little or no scientific evidence for the promises made for many alternative therapies. And yet plenty of educated people regularly buy unproven "natural" remedies...
...Scroll paintings, for example, portray the Buddhist conception of the world and, to the initiated, reveal codified mysteries. Usually painted on cotton or silk brocade with colors made from mineral and vegetable dyes, the image on the thangka undergoes a consecration ceremony through which the deity represented comes to dwell in the painting and endows it with a "soul." Among 200 scrolls on display is a 19th century image, third of a series probably consisting of four parts, of a 14-15th century reformer of Tibetan Buddhism, Tsongkhapa. A student of tantras who experienced visions of Buddhas...
...means the Basilan-based rebels can no longer count on reinforcements?or on an easy escape route to other islands. If Commander Robot does give himself up, say palace sources, Arroyo will be there to meet him when he steps out of the jungle. Arroyo may not dwell on her feelings, but at that moment, she might emit a small sigh of relief...