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Word: perring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...within five minutes of receiving it. If you order takeout from a fancy restaurant, you should tip 10%. At a fancy place, it has to be packaged correctly, which actually takes more time than it does to plate it and bring it out to the table. And tip $1 per coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of an Angry Waiter | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

...symbols in a way that is "communicating a culture," she explains. It is faintly ironic that one of Lee's best-selling shirts, which reads I LOVE SHANGHAI, simply appropriates the 1977 Milton Glaser logo for New York State. But none of this is about a dislike of America, per se. Just the desire to replace America's icons with Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Logo Here | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...what may seem like a low-risk pregnancy can go very wrong at the time of delivery--and that making home birth easier to access could lead to a huge step backward. After birthing moved to hospitals en masse in the 1950s, the maternal mortality rate plummeted, from 376 per 100,000 live births in 1940 to 37.1 per 100,000 in 1960. The most recent statistics show 15.1 deaths per 100,000. Many doctors fear that mortality rates will go up with the rising incidence of home birthing, but there are conflicting data on this. A study published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Birth at Home | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...Atlanta HIV Rate Revisited The Centers for Disease Control has been undercounting the number of new HIV cases in the U.S. Revised figures put the number of newly infected Americans at 55,000 to 58,500 per year instead of 40,000. The overall rate has been stable since the 1990s but is still alarmingly high among gay men and African Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...between matches, the bar helps arrange free rides home. At the World Series in Las Vegas, each team plays with 10 cups, four with water in them and six with beer. The 16-oz. cups are a quarter to a third full. Since each side has roughly one beer per person, the idea is that no one will consume more than one beer per hour. Last January, 300 teams of two paid at least $500 to enter the WSOBP. In its fourth year in 2009, the World Series expects some 500 teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer Pong's Big Splash | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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