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Olympic Deals. Three hotels in Washington State's Olympic National Park are offering 35% off. Kalaloch Lodge is located on the Pacific coast; Lake Quinault Lodge is nestled in the rainforest; and Sol Duc Resort boasts hot springs. The discount is good for stays May 1 to June 26. Rates start at $359 per night...
...Lama plans to plant a tree with University President Drew Faust, and later receive a citation from Harvard, said Sangay. The following day, he will participate in a panel discussion called “Meditation and Psychotherapy—Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom,” at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, organized by the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and the Cambridge Health Alliance. There, the Dalai Lama will speak on compassion and wisdom along with several Harvard professors, including psychology professor Steven Pinker. On May 2, the Tibetan Organization of Boston is sponsoring...
...past 19 years on June 4, large crowds have gathered for candlelight vigils at Hong Kong's Victoria Park to remember the hundreds who died that day in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. This year, which brings the loaded 20th anniversary of the student political movement that began on April 15 and ended in June 1989, activists here are already busy holding discussion panels and meetings across the city. Hong Kong, with its unique political and legal traditions, is the only city under China's rule that permits activities observing the 1989 democracy movement, and has become a hub for activists...
...She’s sitting next to me at a crowded bar in Wicker Park, drawing caricatures on a napkin of everybody in there. Which would usually piss me off a little: oh look how alternative I am, I’m Zach Braff’s next movie girlfriend, I’m that girl at the laundromat who dances alone with headphones on to music nobody can hear. But for whatever reason it doesn’t bother me, her drawing. It gets me going, like I’ve found a friend or something...
...changes we need to make most. We ran a good long road test of the premise that more is better: we built houses that could hold all our stuff but were too big to heat; we bought cars that could ferry a soccer team but were too big to park; we thought we were embracing the simple life by squeezing in a yoga class between working and shopping and took an extra...