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...December and begin the search for a new home.) Her two Shanghai establishments - M on the Bund and the Glamour Bar - overlook the Huangpu River from the Nissin Shipping Building, built in 1921. They were the first ventures of their kind to grace the Bund since its prerevolutionary heyday. "At the time, everyone thought I was crazy to open a fine-dining restaurant there," Garnaut recalls, and the venture's rapid failure was predicted. Instead, scores of restaurants, bars and clubs followed in her wake, and the Bund is once again one of the most famous entertainment strips...
...needed a change. I didn't want to be a caricature. There's nothing worse than that guy who's still rocking his whatever it was 20 years after his heyday. The world's moved on, and you're stuck...
...part, the Guttmacher Institute is opposed to abstinence-only education. "A strong body of research shows that these programs do not work," says Heather Boonstra, a senior public policy associate at the New York City-based organization. "Fortunately, the heyday of this failed experiment has come to an end with the enactment of a new teen pregnancy prevention initiative that ensures that programs will be age-appropriate, medically accurate and, most importantly, based on research demonstrating their effectiveness." Among teens who were not heeding the abstinence advice and were sexually active, about 15% became pregnant, down from a peak...
...have changed. "The singing of Christmas carols at a stranger's door assumes a similarity of culture among carolers and audience," says Chris Brunelle, an assistant professor of classics at St. Olaf college. With America a far more diverse and less homogenous society than it was in caroling's heyday, that's a larger assumption than many are comfortable with. Still, most of us probably agree about...
...tentativeness with which Thompson approached the redecoration of the five-story space over the summer melted away as designers who worked for D/R during its heyday came forward with pieces ranging from peacock feather shaped wooden chairs to one-of-a-kind bolts of Marimekko fabric...