Word: teas
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...Faust seems to be a very lovely person. I want very badly to sit with her and drink tea and talk about interesting things and bring her an apple after class and be her friend forever and, like, stuff. And that’s precisely the problem...
...want a job here, cut off your leg." He pauses to pet the center's resident collie, which limps because it was hit by a car. "Actually, don't do that. We don't have enough jobs as it is." Cairo nods at a young man serving tea with a prosthetic right hook. He also wears a prosthetic left foot. "That's not a landmine injury," Cairo says. The appendages were cut off by the Taliban. "I don't care if he was a thief. Whatever happened, he has paid." Even members of the Taliban have come to the center...
...that many Europeans on hand--and Shenzhen's average annual temperature is 75ºF (24ºC). A recent passenger on the scenic railroad snacked on boiled chicken feet, a local delicacy unlikely to be found in the Alps. Down a short path from the Swiss village is a working Chinese tea plantation, and each afternoon the development's 1,300-seat theater sells out its Zen Tea Show. Performed against the world's largest LCD screen, this hour-long spectacle combines ballet, kung fu and dancing teapots while reminding the audience of China's Buddhist roots. A mountaintop temple is being built...
...raptures as they cheered the party's new savior, Kevin Rudd, and the end of John Howard's long run as Prime Minister. Best keep the ecstasy to a minimum, Rudd jokingly advised a crowd of several hundred campaign workers in Brisbane: just "have a strong cup of tea." But the beer cans went on opening. "Eleven and a half yearsh," people kept saying, happily slurring the s. "Eleven and a half years is just too long...
...with sake; the real meal is rice. In fact, the Japanese words for "meal" and "rice" are the same, gohan. That night's main event was another matsutake masterpiece, which the okami-san herself dished from the old-fashioned pot. The final bowl of shaved ice and matcha-tea syrup combined a clever reference to the tea ceremony with a last, nostalgic taste of summer...