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...long ago, the best one could hope for in extraordinary hotel service was an unusually fluffy imported duvet, express dry cleaning and perhaps even fulfillment of a random late-night food craving. But as discerning travelers spend more extravagantly, they have become increasingly demanding. Luxury hotels are responding with all kinds of new, over-the-top amenities--from decadent sundaes dished up in guests' rooms to poolside tanning butlers or canine room service...
...want to play freeze-tag, build a fort or play make-believe, how many of your friends want to play with you? They’ll probably humor you in a tongue-in-cheek way, covering their discomfort with phrases like, “Wow, that’s random!” or, “Oh, you—you’re so quirky.” Or, if they’re drunk, maybe they’ll play along. Those absurd and whimsical games which, growing up, were products of impulse alone, now seem like...
Price matters more than any quiz show because it's like life. It's random: you don't take a qualifying test but are picked from the crowd. It's social: studio-audience help is not forbidden but encouraged, if often wrong. And it's a little savage: yes, I will bid one dollar over you. Price will keep testing consumers after Barker takes his well-earned rest. And if he ever wants to get a glimpse of real America in his leisurely late mornings, he knows where to come on down...
...known forensic entomologist, says that body farms are becoming more important as stranger-on-stranger crime is on the increase. In cases where the victim is related to the murderer by family, financial or social bonds, police often use these connections to help solve cases. "Now there are more random acts of violence and we have less and less avenues to turn to," says Byrd. Body farms cannot be set up to mimic every kind of environment, of course, but already they have given southern criminologists vital research - for example, bodies decompose in Florida in three days, compared with...
...Regardless of its statistical merits, the study was a reminder of just how subjective, and random, officiating can be. Few coaches, players or fans will deny that superstar players like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James or Dwyane Wade - as was ridiculously evident in last year's NBA Finals - get more favorable calls, or that home teams invariably get more of the benefit of a ref's whistle. But their willingness to call technical or flagrant fouls in crucial situations for actions that a few years ago would have been ignored has led many observers to believe that the refs' egos...