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...open-ended tea bag and carefully spoon out the appropriate tea from boxes that line the wall behind the register. If you've ordered a pot, the pot comes equipped with a mesh to put your tea leaves in--and a three-minute hourglass timer to make sure you steep the tea for just the right amount of time. If you desire a souvenir of your visit, you can choose to buy anything from a teapot drip catcher to mint-tea jelly...
...Angeles famous, if not notorious. Situated on one of LA's most prominent hilltops, it has been warmly embraced by the cultural elite and trend-savvy, the type who would hire people to go to the supermarket to avoid the crowds but relish the opportunity to walk the steep incline in their khakis, Abercrombie blazers and sunglasses, working on a list of who first to call on their cellular phones once they reach...
Gillett personally relishes skiing "steep and deep," which is not a bad metaphor for his investment style. Like his earlier Vail venture, Gillett II rests on a mountain of junk securities, although these cost a mere 12.5% interest, well below the nosebleed rate for his last go-round. And this time he has two big partners: the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., which owns 50% of the ski operations, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which has 10%. Says Gillett, who has a hard time containing his optimism: "The demographics are with us. Skiing is at the same...
...cheering their teams enough, but that was not the case in the Harvard-North Carolina quarterfinal game of the NCAA women's soccer tournament last Saturday down in Chapel Hill. A loyal contingent of Harvard fans and parents made the trek all the way to Chapel Hill, paid the steep $7 ticket price and loudly voiced their support of the Harvard team...
...more than 5 million cases of HIV, more than any other single nation in the world. Unlike the U.S., where the rates of HIV infection have stabilized, South and Southeast Asia are still in a phase in which the growth in number of infected people is alarmingly steep...