Word: mango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finish off the evening by treating yourself to some of the best ice cream in Cambridge. Only a hop, skip and jump away from Jae's is Christina's Homemade Ice Cream, featuring such flavors as Jalapeno, Mango and Guinness. Enjoy the pastel rainbow colored decor as you sit in monstrous wooden booths reveling in you tasty frozen treat. 11 a.m. to midnight, 1255 Cambridge...
...marriage of prepaid calling cards and cheap mobile phones has made markets in Italy, Ireland and Portugal grow nearly 38% a year because there is no subscription fee or phone bill at the end of the month. In Israel some 200,000 units of a phone known as the Mango, which can call only one number, have been sold: principally to parents, who give them to their children so the children can regularly phone home--especially those serving in the army. Sven-Christer Nilsson, president of Ericsson, recently observed that it took about 120 years from Alexander Graham Bell...
Gunesekera's milieu is that of young girls reading Father Brown mysteries under the mango trees, and his language is crunchy with indigenous hybrids (a golfer's swing is "flatter than a Bambalapitiya cheesecake"). Here he simply unravels the story of two rival clans occupying a piece of land once developed by an English captain with a house called Arcadia. By the end of the book, one scion is running a Shangri-La Hotel, and a matriarch is being buried in chilly London, at a funeral without mourners...
...stroll (or bike ride) off to a remote beach for a massage and swimming. In the evening, they return to the ship for dinner in Lumiere's restaurant, the Parrot Cay or the Animators' Palate, where for dessert they get to "paint" their own sundae with chocolate, strawberry and mango sauces. Then it's off to one of three Broadway-style shows, which, as of last week, needed a lot of doctoring. One, a pirate yarn called Voyage of the Ghost Ship, is a calamity unworthy of the Disney name...
...first glance, the confrontation at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif., last February seemed familiar enough. Inside, two pro-business think tanks, the Brookings Institution and the World Affairs Council of Northern California, treated the Silicon Valley elite to chicken with mango sauce and a speech by a distinguished guest. Outside, environmental activists from the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and the Green Party chanted their disapproval...