Word: holidaying
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Shared bathrooms. Damp floors. Dirty bedding. The complaints from the residents of the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village and other decrepit resort settlements in Hong Kong are the sorts of gripes you would expect from unhappy campers. This time, though, the more than 240 occupants of these remote settlements are the evacuated residents of Block E of Amoy Gardens, a crowded Hong Kong housing estate that has become the most virulent breeding ground yet for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak. In barely a week more than 250 residents of Amoy Gardens contracted the potentially deadly virus?nearly half...
...virus bomb could detonate somewhere in mainland China, especially since a lack of transparency has kept hospitals there in the dark about how to handle the disease. That danger is especially acute now, as many Chinese working in cities return to their home villages to celebrate the grave-sweeping holiday honoring their ancestors. "If only one is a superspreader, then here we go again," frets Meirion Evans, one of the WHO's five-person SARS team, which was confined to Beijing for nearly a week before it was finally allowed into Guangdong last Thursday...
Danny, while writing for Seinfeld, included “Festivus”—his father’s made-up holiday loosely based on Samuel Becket’s play Krapp’s Last Tape—in a 1997 episode, “The Strike...
Mark laughs at the horde of loyal Seinfeld fans who celebrate the holiday and the Ben and Jerry’s flavor named after...
...Butcherie sells small containers of apricot, prune and apple jam, as well as the poppy seed, sold by weight. Signs for Purim foods were plastered everywhere, above hamantaschen, Israeli chocolate bars and gum drops. “At my house, we give friends and family sweets for the holiday,” explained my companion Barbara Magid. Purim went beyond hamantaschen to incorporate a variety of sweets, thereby becoming a true culinary expedition...