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...scoop up these marketgoers, pedal them to their hotels and return with pockets full of foreign currency - a lucrative cycle drivers can repeat dozens of times a day. In recent months, though, the Silk Street Market's once reliable bustle has thinned dramatically. "I haven't seen a single tour bus pulling into the market this morning," says Lao Qian, a 49-year-old rickshaw driver taking a long lunch break. "And I've had a total of three customers since yesterday...
...knowing that most of out-of-work travellers will be particularly price-sensitive, some companies have crafted special offers for the newly unemployed. Intrepid Travel, an Australian tour operator with U.S. headquarters in Boulder, Colo., recently launched a promotion dubbed "Laid Off Take Off," through which customers who provide letters stating that their jobs have been terminated within the last calendar year get 15% off trips to a variety of destinations...
...Wheel-clamp. Dogs. Vagrants. A tour of our wonderful capital city is not to be missed. The Fergie, The Princess Di and the football hooligan." -Describing the state of the nation in 1989's Translating The English...
...Penne, that means the students tour the factory floor, where they observe some of the 220 steps (and 20 hours) that go into making a single jacket. Some 1,500 suits a week are turned out, with prices ranging from $3,385 off the rack to $4,740 custom-made. In the silent hum of the manual assembly line, the students can see the 60 stitches that go into one buttonhole and watch the fabric being hand-cut with 13-in. scissors. Still, most of their time is spent, needle and thread in hand, in a brightly lit third-floor...
...write,” Schachter says of his foray into vocal music. Schachter also plays bass with Kuumba, whose “raw energy and feeling have impacted [his] style of writing.” Schachter even picked up yet another instrument, the didgeridoo, when Kuumba went on tour performing aboriginal music in Australia. For his senior thesis, Schachter wanted to combine the free, improvisational character of jazz music with the elements of the classical compositional form he had honed during his undergraduate studies at Harvard. The product was “The Ten Plagues...