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...thing to be pleasant, even friendly, to people we actually know and care about, but what about the folks who don't deserve anything less than a quick kick in the shin? Do I have to be polite to the guy who lives in the apartment next to me (thin walls, people!) and plays his trombone at 4 A.M.? Do I have to make nice with the woman whose dog inevitably leaves a little gift just outside the door of my building? No, I say. And if my refusal to grin and bear it makes me a bad person...
...thought," she murmured, feeling my pulse. "Too much kapha." She glanced at the symptoms on my chart?fatigue, irritability and the occasional blinding migraine?and scribbled a prescription. "Don't worry, we can help you." A day later, I was in treatment, lying flat on my back with a thin stream of heated oil drizzling onto my forehead. For 40 min. two barefoot attendants poured a pungent green oil over my brow in a gentle back and forth motion. It might sound like slow torture, but the shirodhara oil treatment is deeply relaxing and said to cure migraines...
...TDMA, GSM and GPRS. So in two days I had to be up to snuff on enough of the lingo to find out why Samsung was so hot in chips, TV monitors, computer monitors and cell phones. Now I know what a DLP TV is. (Hint: it's thin, looks good on a tabletop and makes Saturday-sports fanatics ecstatic.) Samsung Telecommunications America opened the doors to its rather unglamorous headquarters in Richardson, Texas, and showed off the phones that will be debuting this week at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association trade fair in Orlando, Florida. (Note to my editor...
Vogue editor Anna Wintour emphasizes that the magazine's April "Shape Issue" is devoted to women of all sizes. This may raise skepticism among readers of the tony monthly, where rail-thin models have long been de rigueur. But there, for the first time in Vogue, is the "plus size" model KATE DILLON. The idea sprang from the success of an issue last year featuring women of various ages. "We're trying to show women there are clothes for them within the Vogue world whether they are curvy, tall or short," says Wintour. The short part might strike a chord...
Succulent combinations of shrimp, crabmeat and pork in paper-thin pastry-like wrappings are steamed and served in the trademark bamboo baskets, which are loaded onto carts and wheeled through the restaurant?mobile menu and tableside delivery in one. Beyond the signature dumplings, other offerings include garlic pork ribs, turnip cake and the ubiquitous chicken feet. Dim sum is usually taken with tea?jasmine, chrysanthemum and oolong are favorites?but rice wine and beer are acceptable alternatives...