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...amid these Soviet remnants, new buildings are emerging and old ones are undergoing renovation. The Japanese have built a six-story trade center, the Koreans have opened a cultural building and the nearby Sakhalin Center now houses the American trade office and the primary expat hangout, the Pacific CafE. The foreigners are drawn by oil and natural gas. Like California during the gold rush of the 1800s, Sakhalin has attracted the world's prospectors, each hoping to mine its bounty and, in the process, turning parts of the city into a freewheeling frontier town...
...weeks ago, sitting at the Judson Grill, a sleek New York City hangout for publishing types, Gollob, 71, reflected on the path that has taken him on scholarly jaunts to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, to Oxford University and even to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. His interest in the Bard is only intensifying, the Houston-born Gollob says with a Texas twang. "You read Shakespeare like you read the Bible," he says. "Because he's rich in ambiguity, you find something new each time you read him, something you've missed...
...final destination, Cappy points out the old hangout of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the alleged former head of the notorious “Winter Hill Gang” organized crime group, who is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. Also along the way is Good Times Emporium, where Cappy used to go to shoot pool, and The World Gym, which Hulk Hogan once visited during Cappy’s childhood...
Whether used as a daytime study spot or as an after-hours hangout, the lounge has already played a role in normalizing the stressful academic lives of these aspiring scientists—to whatever extent that is possible. “People have used the space for birthday parties and for thesis defense parties,” Dransfield says...
...students. Though the lounge may be dead on weekday afternoons, the place becomes popular around 5 or 6 p.m., reports first-year graduate student Michael Fuerstman, who is studying physical chemistry. Fuerstman says he hits the center at least once a day and thinks the lounge is an important hangout for chem grad students. “There is usually someone on the pool table [after 5] and sometimes there’s even a line,” he says. Post-doctoral fellow Jiade Yang reports that he works in the lab for 10 hours every day. He says...