Word: ramen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...including a gallery of photographs of what was there before. Inside the complex, a wide spiraling incline takes shoppers on a tour of luxe fashion and lifestyle boutiques. Caf?s and restaurants abound, and if you're patient enough to brave the queues, Mist's upscale take on the traditional ramen shop makes for a delightful stop. Vague attempts have been made to cast Omotesando in an eco-friendly mold (there's a barrage of greenery and free bicycle parking within), but the eye is only briefly fooled: in the end, this is an icon of big-city consumerism...
...Inside the complex, a wide spiraling incline takes shoppers on a tour of luxe fashion and lifestyle boutiques. Cafés and restaurants abound, and if you're patient enough to brave the queues, Mist's upscale take on the traditional ramen shop makes for a delightful stop. Vague attempts have been made to cast Omotesando in an eco-friendly mold (there's a barrage of greenery and free bicycle parking within), but the eye is only briefly fooled: in the end, this is an icon of big-city consumerism, and an authentic taste of Tokyo's hypermodern retail landscape...
...many subsidized meals as possible before you’re forced to subsist entirely on Ramen and breakfast cereal...
STEPPING DOWN. MOMOFUKU ANDO, 95, culinary entrepreneur who in 1958 invented instant ramen noodles, a convenience-store staple and a $10 billion industry worldwide; as chairman of Nissin Food Products Co.; in Osaka. Ando was inspired to start his food business by the privations of the country's post-World War II depression. "I was sure the world could be peaceful only after having enough food," he said last week. He will continue to advise the company as founding chairman once his resignation is effective June...
...critical thinking may threaten Harvard’s fundraising. Harvard will never be the world’s neediest cause. With an endowment second only to the Catholic Church, Harvard can’t tug the heart strings like those NGOs out there feeding their employees on Ramen noodles and hope. Harvard does incredible things, but it also does things that most disagree with. When so many morally pure charities need money, why should we give to one of the world’s wealthiest institutions when we disagree with some of its actions...