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...long queues. After 5 p.m., admission to the park is cut from around $27 to about $23. You can still fit plenty in as the park stays open till 11 p.m., and there are lots of restaurants to choose from for dinner. After that, jump back on the train and head to Cheonggyecheon for a stroll along the 3.6-mile (5.8-km) stream near the presidential palace and Seoul City Hall. It's lit until 11 p.m. and there's an abundance of cafés by the stream if you need some caffeine to keep you going...
...current tussle, which halted train travel throughout France and paralyzed Paris in recent days, stems from government plans to raise the retirement age for public-sector employees such as rail and utility workers. That's something successive governments have attempted repeatedly since the '80s, only to be thwarted by union-led opposition. Sarkozy's determination to storm the one bastion labor has successfully defended from creeping reform reflects his electoral promise to "rupture" with France's musty status quo. By launching that assault just six months into his five-year term, Sarkozy grasps how vital a victory in reforming public...
What exactly do management consultants do? I asked this of a McKinsey recruiter many years ago. He said, "We provide expertise." I said, "But you're thinking of hiring me, and I have no expertise." He said, "We'll train you." Nothing about that interview dissuaded me from the view that consultants spend at least as much energy and brainpower selling themselves to clients as they spend doing whatever the client pays them...
During the week, Gupta uses the plane to train engineering students and flight attendants. On weekends, under the billing Aeroplanet, it is open to the public and school groups. Poor villagers and students can visit free. "Passengers" check in, receive boarding passes and climb a steep metal staircase to enter the plane. Flight attendants then run them through the safety procedures, serve them snacks and cold drinks and answer questions about how an aircraft works. In a nod to a more innocent time, passengers are free to visit the pilots in the cockpit. "We are fulfilling life wishes," says Gupta...
...thumbs are more agile; their eyes can read the print. This is alarming for adults in all kinds of ways: kids suddenly want the same toys we have, which they understand better and use in ways we can't imagine. Parents once stayed up late on Christmas Eve assembling train sets. Now our children program our gadgets for us, surreptitiously switch our ring tones, leave notes on the screens. It's a dramatic reckoning with the inevitable transfer of power that occurs as children get older. It's their world now: we're just surfing through...