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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Pearl lovers, Hong Kong is your oyster. Just ask Joanne Larby. The Chicago accountant-cum-tourist was recently rubbing a strand against her teeth to verify the pearls' authenticity at a jewelry counter on Kowloon's Nathan Road. The teeth-test, of course, is overrated; rubbing the pearls against one another is more effective without risking damage to the gems. But Larby wasn't taking any chances. This was the 32nd string of pearls Larby had run across her pearly whites that day. "The pearls are just so cheap here," she explained, "I'm not convinced they're real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Pearl City, But for How Long? | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...ultimate pleasure palace. Its London store is its biggest ever, comprising 80,000 square feet spread out over three floors offering 10,000 grocery items. These include 1,000 different wines, 425 cheeses, 40 types of sausage, 55 in-store chefs, a sushi bar, a champagne and oyster bar and a DJ-booth to play music for late-night shoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whole Foods Hits the Land of Mushy Peas | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

Some of you can see my cell-phone number in my contact information, and the personal section just has lyrics from Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” No, I’m not morbid – I just think the song is cool...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Monster of a Website | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...Blue Oyster Cult lyrics notwithstanding, I seem to possess a relatively normal facebook profile, as nearly all college students do. Being on Facebook, at least at Harvard, might as well be a requirement that goes along with Expos as a ritual everyone must endure. While there are the few and the proud amongst us who shun Facebook, they are an all too miniscule minority. We’ve become a cult of addictees to the point that the phrase “drunken wall-post” is now a lexical mainstay...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Monster of a Website | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...until college students en masse decide to just say no to facebook, I’ll continue to advertise my love for Blue Oyster Cult and figure out how to bump into the love of my life (perhaps right after he finishes “Morality and Taboo”) and strike up a conversation about Bob Dylan, beach volleyball, or “Seinfeld...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Monster of a Website | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

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