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...cars and cabooses chugged along tracks that circled diners’ tables, which were arranged in a big loop and named. Ours was the Beijing Station Platform #6. Each car carried a plate of food that diners could reach out and grab as the train passed by. With four looping tracks, and each vehicle carrying dishes with different prices, I counted at least 35 food options to hot pot, including five types of mushrooms (one, a cutely shaped species I’d never seen in America before). The food delivery method created an amusing, interactive buffet, a clever combination...
...their bid to drive down costs, big-box stores have kept the salaries and benefits for their employees to a bare minimum; fashion retailers have prioritized price over style and quality, often using their outlet stores to hawk a completely different line of merchandise. Finally, what kind of bottomless plate of scampi do you really think 15 bucks can buy? In her new book, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, Shell argues that our never-ending pursuit of cheap has blighted our landscape, depressed working wages and (yes) contributed to the global financial meltdown. Shell talked to TIME about...
...challenge of not only being part of a church community but also praying in peace has long been a problem for Presidents, according to historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony. "McKinley hated having people staring at him while he read Psalms, sang hymns, put money in the collection plate or took communion," he writes in America's First Families. "By the 1920s, getting a presidential family in and out of church was a production. Secret Service agents had to cordon off a clear path from the curb to the church entrance before the Coolidges arrived ... [and] they were swiftly escorted to their...
...self-righteous reason, and I hate that, it's so alienating. I've just chosen this because I really love animals and I'm really interested in biology and the natural world. I can't change the world, but at least I can change what's on my plate, in a way that doesn't cost a lot of money.(Read "Ecological Intelligence...
...particularly strong number given that tuition for some private institutions in areas with high in-state tuition may already be covered by the baseline GI Bill benefits.He added that "it's very encouraging to see schools of the caliber of Harvard to be stepping up to the plate and helping veterans."Moulton said for Harvard in particular, participating in Yellow Ribbon represented a great opportunity to change the tone of the historically "sordid" relationship the University has had with the military."I think the University is a step behind most of its students and a large portion of the faculty...