Word: tote
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...independent London-based think tank New Economics Foundation is pushing the implementation of a set of national wellbeing accounts that would tote up life satisfaction and personal development as well as issues such as trust and engagement. The accounts would also include liabilities, such as stress and depression. The logistics won?t be hard, says Hetan Shah of NEF, because much of the data is already captured by the government. In 2002, the Strategy Unit, an internal government think tank that reports to Prime Minister Tony Blair, conducted a seminar on life satisfaction and its public policy implications. Shah says...
...girls—Kelly, Patricia, Tiffany et al. With John Mayer blasting overhead, guests customize handbag prototypes on handsome workbench spaces in this veritable altar to chick lit. The bags don’t come cheap—mini makeup bags start at $25 and the more popular large tote bags go for $125—but there’s no obligation to buy. (Most do.) BYO wine, cheese and cocktails to get the creative juices flowing...
Cutting and pasting may seem archaic when it's possible to tote around 25,000 of your favorite snapshots on an iPod. But the good old-fashioned pastime of keepsaking is taking off in the U.S., making scrapbooking big business. Last year Americans shelled out more than $2 billion for albums, stickers, ribbons and other scrapbooking supplies. Some 2,000 stores around the country are devoted to the practice, up from just a few hundred five years ago. Diehards attend scrapbooking cruises and gather in online chat rooms to trade advice on overcoming "journaler's block" and remedying puffy eyes...
...boasts some of the most prime real estate around. These days, Harvard students wade through a sea of ATM’s, four dollar vanilla lattes and top-end shopping on their way to class. In this tourist-happy neck of the woods, everything from Tide to tote bags is marked up with a vengeance. Forget about the $42,000 tuition—for some, life beyond Lamont can start to get financially ludicrous...
Many bands tote racks full of effects pedals onto the stage, but rarely are they justified. On Friday, they most certainly were: Luna manipulate sound like magicians, using all the tricks in their bag to make a single guitar track multiply and shapeshift until it’s palpable, filling the room with warm red sound...