Word: parkes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Over at the Goodwood Park Hotel, www.goodwoodparkhotel.com, fashionable Singaporeans gather at the Dim Sake Bar - a name that reflects the venue's specialization in creative dim sum and Japanese rice wine. Patrons are greeted by 5,282 dim-sum baskets that line the wall, and can savor dishes such as grilled stingray fin with mayo and flying-fish-roe dip or xiao long bao shooters (a delicate soup dumpling sitting in a shot glass filled with warm chicken broth), as well as steamed fish worthy of a top Chinese restaurant. Those not in the mood for dim sum can seat...
...playing in a company softball game in New York's Central Park, on of one of those few brilliant blue evenings that make the city temporarily seem like a livable place in the summer. I'd been stationed deep in right field, so naturally my thoughts began to migrate to subjects other than the game before me. I watched the tall trees sway in the breeze, and was instantly gripped by dread. For this, like much else, I blame M. Night Shyamalan. Those who've seen his most recent film, The Happening, know why. The eco-pocalypse is coming...
...over; breast-fed babies stop eating when they are full. The American Academy of Pediatrics has stated that breast-feeding is a way to lower a child's risk of becoming overweight, along with increasing child activity, monitoring growth and promoting healthy eating patterns. Nikki Lee, R.N., Elkins Park, Pennsylvania...
What's wrong with lifting up a community and trying to make it better? I'm as nostalgic as the next guy, but sometimes change can stimulate growth, and in this case, it's change for the better. Carmin Piccirillo, ELMWOOD PARK...
...thing I have come to love about New York is the incredible diversity you can witness in a relatively small space. Take, for example Bryant Park, the site of my lunch break last Friday. I was sitting at a green metal table with two of my fellow interns, Rachel and Danny. All of a sudden, we hear the aching melody of Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply." We turn slightly and see a man—probably in his late 60s, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses—round the coffee stand. He is dressed in a gray...