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...After wandering around the Admiralty district, I found myself in one of the countless hole-in-the-wall local eateries which served up breakfast for the requisite 16-22 HKD ($2-3). I tried out my Mandarin on the waitress. "Ni hui shuo yingyu huo shi putonghua ma?" I asked. Do you speak English or Mandarin? She replied in Mandarin...

Author: By Lingbo Li | Title: Breakfast in Cantonese | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...room with a woman--but she's a nurse, and it's an insurance physical. His doctor tells him he has high blood pressure: "You're 36 years old. You need to take this seriously." He's trying to behave; he even turns down a proposition from a gorgeous waitress. And he's feeling old. (Hamm wears Don's manly rigidity like a suit of armor; he's Clark Kent, hiding not a super but a lesser alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Men on a New Frontier | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

Sixty-one-year-old Rolling Stone RONNIE WOOD runs off with 18-year-old Russian waitress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...eating lunch in Ever Gotesco shopping mall in Manila. At around 1:20 p.m., a group of four men approached his table. They spoke quietly to Burgos for about 20 minutes. Then the men began pushing him toward the mall's exit. "I'm just an activist," a waitress heard Burgos shout. A mall security guard approached the group. As the guard would later testify, the men warned him that they were police officers. They hustled Burgos outside and into a maroon Toyota. As the car vanished into traffic, the guard wrote down the license plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Disappearing Dissidents | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

...goal-oriented minimalists. One of the trickier questions is what counts as an item. Bruno considers a pair of shoes to be a single entity, which seems sensible but still pretty hard-core when you're trying to jettison all but 100 personal possessions. Cait Simmons, 27, a waitress in Chicago, takes a different approach. Although she has pared down her footwear collection from 35 to 20 pairs, she says, "All my shoes count as one item...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Live With Just 100 Things | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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