Word: holidaying
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...Christmas used to be a very raucous outdoor celebration, in the English tradition. So much so that it was really condemned by a lot of religious figures, and banned in some of the states in the 18th and 19th century. What we've done to the holiday is to turn it into something you have to celebrate privately, in your home, in your family. You don't put on costumes as you might once have done, and go from door to door, and then dance in the public square. You stay indoors, among your family. But I'm always fascinated...
...called Firmicutes. What these microbes do, for reasons of their own, is not to make you firmer or cuter, but to increase your absorption of calories, so you get fatter on the same amount of food. They don't care any more about your waistline than mice, or your holiday visitors, care about whose house this is. They just know that in a fatso, they thrive...
...become the biggest selling item in the 30-year history of our store," says Harmony Rose Allor, a buyer at West Hollywood's popular metaphysical bookshop The Bodhi Tree. While DVDs do well to sell a few hundred copies there during the busy holiday season, The Secret has been selling in the thousands. All this for a low-budget documentary revolving around a centuries-old concept commonly known as The Law of Attraction...
...office in Switzerland. But he noted that trading volumes were light because the outage occurred between Christmas and New Year's Day. "If this had happened two weeks from now, there would have been chaos in the streets," Rowles says. "I think a lot of people are still in holiday mode. The key question now is: 'When is (the Internet) going to be fully operational again...
...While the holiday may have saved the region's businesses from major financial pain, Budde says that the outage could serve as a reminder to Asian countries of vulnerabilities in their Internet infrastructure. "(Governments) look at this as a telecommunications problem for telecoms to solve," he says. "But telecoms are looking after shareholder value, not necessarily the national interest. I think one thing that will come out of this is that countries will start to understand this is a national problem, not a telecom problem...