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After a student cleaned my suite’s bathroom early in the semester, we expected him to return a week later. Yet, he did not return. Instead, week after week, we stared at the yellow “dorm crew was here” slip on our mirror hoping that someone from dorm crew would soon appear to rescue our bathroom from its ever-so-ungracious disintegration into pure filth. Finally, after over a month without service, one roommate called the dorm crew office, and the next day a student came to clean. His service restored our bathroom?...
Burrell is still devoted to Diana--besotted is more like it--and to the Queen. Though he sold his story for $650,000 to a British TV network and the Mirror, a London tabloid, he carefully protected Diana's and the Queen's reputations as he blabbed, and even turned down a rival offer of $3 million to dish all the dirt he knew...
...hyperactive children called tactile defensiveness. Heller expands on that in the context of today's hyperstimulating world. She believes that up to 15% of adults may suffer from some form of sensory defensiveness. One person avoids driving at night because he can't tolerate headlights reflecting in his rearview mirror. Another can't relax until she washes a musty-smelling dishrag in the next room. Says Heller: "Sensory defensiveness is when your reaction to stimuli starts to govern the choices you make in your life...
...Western embassies about the impending threat. An ever-growing security clampdown now sees most hotels, and some shopping malls, guarded by groups of machine-gun-toting soldiers and officials who frisk pedestrians and subject entering vehicles to detailed examinations that include a sweep of the chassis with flashlight and mirror-equipped poles. Some of the city's most popular expat watering holes?such as the usually packed BATS at the Shangri-La hotel?have simply shut down until further notice...
...simian star Koko, a lowland gorilla who quite famously speaks sign language and understands spoken English, is already a star in print with, among other works, the young-adult favorite Koko’s Kitten and the primatologist favorite “Mirror Behavior and Self-Concept in the Lowland Gorilla.” Now she’s ready to conquer the pop music world with her latest release Fine Animal Gorilla, a benefit CD for The Gorilla Foundation...