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...know what exactly I expected the flight attendant to do about my plight. Return for the bag separately? Tell me to leave it in on the floor for the clean-up crew? Have me toss it to the family of five seated in the back row and ask them to tip it on into the restroom? What I most certainly did not expect was that, in the wake of our exchange, said attendant would become so anxious about what precisely I would do with my toxic cargo that I would be given permission to leave my seat and take...
What?s going on in Tokyo? Why so much glee over a disaster? After one of Japan?s hottest internet companies was revealed to be mired in financial scandal, the Nikkei was sent reeling, and the stock market tumbled 3% two days in a row. An investment firm executive linked to the controversy was found dead in an Okinawa hotel room, an apparent suicide. So why are upstanding members of Japan?s business establishment barely able to contain their happiness? It?s all in how you say ?schadenfreude? in Japanese...
...short skis and body armor to protect against the impact of gates. Each skier makes two consecutive runs down the same slope on different courses. The lowest combined score wins. Only an inspection is permitted ? 55 to 75 gates, including flushes (three or four closed gates in a row) and hairpins (two closed gates...
...keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean...
...Break-Out system has] definitely kept the lecture hall full,” Heller says.But according to one student, the Break-Outs don’t help with the sleepiness experienced in lecture itself.“I was in Life Sciences 1a one day, sitting in the last row as usual, and I look behind me, and sprawled out on the floor are kids! And what are they doing? They’re sleeping,” says the student, who asked to remain anonymous because the final exam and final grades in the course have not yet been...