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...Peng, owner, Hotel 1929 and New Majestic Hotel Singapore has quite a few vibrant ethnic neighborhoods like Chinatown, Little India and Arab Street. If you're after something exotic and unusual from old colonial Singapore, pop over to CK Collections in Little India for amazing period fans and lights. Call first, tel: (65) 9382 3438, or CK might be out fixing or delivering something. I recommend an early dinner of fish-head curry at Apollo Banana Leaf restaurant on Race Course Road, tel: (65) 6293 8682, followed by a long browse at Mustafa, a 24-hour shopping center...
...middle class swelling, India's $350 billion retail sector - which a McKinsey study says will be worth $1.52 trillion by 2025 - has local and overseas corporations salivating. India is a nation of shopkeepers: over 95% of the country's estimated 12 million retail outlets are small, mom-and-pop operations, striving alongside countless hawkers, vendors and street-stall owners. The network of small local markets that supply much of India's groceries has been honed over decades, but the notoriously inefficient system of middlemen it relies upon has been dogged by wastage...
...things that shape who we are, few seem more arbitrary than the sequence in which we and our siblings pop out of the womb. Maybe it's your genes that make you a gifted athlete, your training that makes you an accomplished actress, an accident of brain chemistry that makes you a drunk instead of a President. But in family after family, case study after case study, the simple roll of the birth-date dice has an odd and arbitrary power...
...have had one good memory or experience out of Harvard.” Before Saturday night, the Lampoon was putting out place settings for “somewhere between 15 and 20” guests, but they were also “expecting a bunch of random people to pop up,” Arbes and Davenport say. The identities of the crashers were impossible to discover, given the Lampoon’s typical semi-secrecy...
...under the name “T-Radio” at its North Station, South Station, and Airport subway platforms. According to the MBTA, the new radio station will offer a variety of music along with news, sports, weather, and entertainment updates. The station will include rock, R&B, pop hits, and Latin chart toppers. In addition, the station is considering recruiting some of the local artists who already play at T stations to broadcast their songs as well. The test program is being run under the helm of Pyramid Radio Inc., a Boston-based media corporation that owns...