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To put it plainly, using the Internet is a pain for anyone who is not fluent in English. American English, that is. For many in Hong Kong, where English is more often used than in the mainland, this barrier nevertheless poses a great inconvenience. The people at the newspaper office...
I fully anticipated that my experience working in Paris this summer for three months would enhance my appreciation for French culture, language and the daily working world. That might very well happen. But even before I left the Charles De Gaulle airport, my first encounter with the French left me...
Most kids, though, lament that their parents aren't much help at all on sexual matters. They either avoid the subject, miss the mark by starting the discussion too long before or after the sexual encounter, or just plain stonewall them. "I was nine when I asked my mother the...
My first encounter with Rodgers and Hammerstein was via my father. He was then director of composition at the Royal College of Music. On my 10th birthday, he interrupted my endless replays of Jailhouse Rock and insisted on playing something for me. Onto the battered 78 r.p.m. record player was...
In the '70s and '80s, Henson produced innumerable films and TV shows with and without the Muppets. Some were dark, like his adaptations of folktales and myths in the ingenious TV series Jim Henson's The Storyteller. Then in 1990, at age 53, Henson suddenly died after contracting an extremely...