Word: ren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luxe loose-leaf varieties. Tea houses across the country, like San Francisco's Tea & Co., Boston's Tealuxe and Washington's Teaism, are packing in sippers. Even the high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown, used to have an almost solely Asian clientele; now a third of her customers are non-Asians. "People used to spit it out and stick out their tongues," she says of those sampling her exotic teas. "Now they know the quality...
...gave the ribbon a quick once-over for latent images. No wonder they called him the spy's spy. A veteran of the CIA's Berlin operations base, Montgomery deftly vaulted over a guard rope, spun around in Mielke's chair with schoolboy glee and ransacked the bar-ren safe. "It's nice to find the seat empty," he said...
Conversely, the voice of Chucky belongs to the talented and Academy-Award-nominated Brad Dourif, who occasionally sounds like he's voicing Ren and Stimpy. But none of this matters...
...cities have money, but they have problems too. Most are clogged with job seekers; costs are higher than in the countryside; thieves are more plentiful; and pollution is choking. "Sometimes it is so bad the planes can't take off," says Wang Ren, a taxi driver in Chongqing, the first major city on the Yangtze's course. After barely an hour driving through the city, eyes begin to sting and throats get sore from the brown haze that hangs in the air. Wang says he cannot find another job; layoffs from state-owned industries have been heavy in Chongqing...
...Diff'rent Strokes" and "Webster:" Who do they think they're kidding? Wealthy, white paternalism (complete with cool pad) meets needy black child(ren...