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...worse for his first intercontinental flight. Encountering a laptop-bearing reporter, Ogyen Trinley Dorje inquired eagerly about the computer; like his mentor, he's apparently a Mac fan. Asked if he'd managed to sleep on the plane, he replied, "Sleep, but not well. Lot of ..." Then, his maroon robe dancing, the 17th reincarnated head of Tibetan Buddhism's Kagyu sect offered an enthusiastic mime of a bumpy transoceanic flight...
WOODY HARRELSON plans to maroon himself on an island for 40 days. David Blaine to hold his breath until Harrelson returns...
...What did University of Chicago Law School Dean Saul Levmore mean in a Chicago Maroon article about your departure when he said that “there are a couple of personal reasons” for your decision to leave? CRS: I have been at University of Chicago for over two decades. I love the place and I have no problems with my longtime home. When people leave one institution, often there is a sense of dissatisfaction with that institution and I don’t have that. In terms of a career, it can be good to go someplace...
...restaurants in Tokyo that specialize in whale. Sliced whale cartilage is prepared as a "sunomono salad and prized for its distinctive not-quite crunchy texture," says Japanese food specialist and author Elizabeth Andoh. The salad looks like whitish, semi-translucent, crinkled straw wrappers on a bed of curly maroon and green seaweeds. Says Andoh: "Mouth-feel is very important to the enjoyment of Japanese food...
...necks. Further, resistance tests showed that men's necks are 50% stronger than those of women. Another new biomechanical study shows that during adolescence, boys develop significantly stronger necks than girls do. "More-developed necks allow boys to better absorb a blow to the head," says Dr. Joseph Maroon, a neurosurgeon and consultant to the Sports Concussion Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center...