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...minutes in sports," The Kentucky Derby emphasizes the event in sporting event. For this, its all about Southern hospitality (no, not that kind). Put on your nicest spring dress, your finest jewelry, and, of course, the oh so necessary derby hat, and treat yourself to some sweet tea, mint juleps, and hopefully a little barbecue as you enjoy the action from Churchill Downs. Most of the fun here will be viewing the elegant spectators around the track as they wait for the race to start...
...much for the theory that maternity leave and childrearing are responsible for slowing women's climb up the employment ladder. Despite increasing efforts to mint more female professors in recent years, a new report from the Modern Language Association of America shows that women take longer than men to get promoted from associate professor to full professor - regardless of whether they are married or have children...
...home of the Kentucky Derby, America's greatest horse race, the city of Louisville has developed a tradition of hospitality ranging from white-glove genteel for the mint-julep set to gutbucket honky-tonk for the infield mob. Yet the city's most intriguing hotel has built its off-track winning formula around a thoroughbred collection of contemporary art. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...McCoy, which combines sculpture, electronics and video for a culturally savvy discourse on the thin line between utopia and dystopia. Of course, you could ignore all that and just go up to your room; there are 90 of them, stocked with customized iPods, specially distilled bourbon and sterling-silver mint-julep cups. But even there you'll be surrounded by original art. That's the point...
...They envisioned a room full of bubbles in which people could simply open their mouths and taste everything from rhubarb pie to artichokes as the bubbles popped. But the bubbles’ lipid membranes were too weak to support imbedded particles. They tried tea. They tried mint. They tried a chocolate hookah—but the flour-filled prototype left May coated in white and wheezing. By November, the group had still failed to come up with a viable product. Martin suggested using pipettes as a temporary solution: “We could stuff them and people could squeeze them...