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...Very loosely descended from the geisha house tradition, hostess bars hire out women by the hour to act as companions for customers. Hostesses are not prostitutes; they are more like paid, platonic girlfriends. They may choose to sleep with a client, they may not. Although there are no official numbers on how many women work in hostess bars, it's estimated that hundreds of thousands labor throughout Japan in what is surely a multibillion-dollar industry. For the salaryman customers, hostess bars, with their posh atmosphere, beautiful women and steady flow of drinks, are a choice venue in which...
...leave a note at the condo before I left. When I got home I could send out a preemptive e-mail to everyone whom I (stupidly) had told about the trip. My wife knows me well enough, she wouldn't say a word, she'd just let me sleep it off. Nobody really cares about biathlon anyway. I could make up whatever I want.... Say that I did really well. They wouldn't even be able to find the results of the race on the Internet. They'd just have to take my word for it. Hmmmm... the quitting thing...
...while one obvious barrier is this worry that medical care signifies weakness, a less obvious concern is that students don’t even consider themselves to need help. There’s a perverse system of heroics in place—the Harvard students who get the least sleep, feel the most stressed, push their body and mind to the farthest extreme, are the “winners.” Is it any wonder, then, that during reading period and exams more students get sick than any other time of year...
...Leverett, Dunster and Mather, and has expanded this year to Adams, Pforzheimer and Quincy. After members of each House filled out a brief survey regarding their own health concerns and interests, members of CHI responded by organizing yoga, massage and self-defense classes, inviting guests to speak about sleep and creating visible bulletin boards containing “health-tips” and resource information. Each participating House has a resource library of health-related books for student...
...least until it becomes continuous and intolerable, which, for many people, it already has. Or until it dawns on people, not only those living around airports but the millions more who live under the proliferating webs of flight path, that they are paying an unacceptable price in stress, lost sleep, impaired hearing, inability to concentrate, in their children's ability to learn and in the generally degraded quality of life that results when the mind is tormented by these intrusions...