Word: whim
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Suni Magyar never planned on owning a crafts shop. Busy with her reflexology business in Uganda's capital of Kampala, the Kenyan-born, British-educated Hungarian-Scot set up Banana Boat, her first tiny 2-sq-m shop, on a whim. "There were lots of expats living in the city with big houses, lots of wall space and nothing to put on them," explains Magyar. "Initially, I thought it would be quite fun to sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since 2000, has combined her love of traditional local craftsmanship...
Suni Magyar never planned on owning a crafts shop. Busy with her reflexology business in Uganda's capital of Kampala, the Kenyan-born, British-educated Hungarian-Scot set up Banana Boat, her first tiny 2-sq-m shop, on a whim. "There were lots of expats living in the city with big houses, lots of wall space and nothing to put on them," explains Magyar.[an error occurred while processing this directive] "Initially, I thought it would be quite fun to sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since...
...allowing us to travel with greater speed, freedom and whim than our ancestors could ever have imagined, the Interstates changed how we experience movement through space and time. Not so long ago, when family vacations entailed days poking along in slow-moving cars on even slower roads, the journey ranked almost as high as the destination. To relieve the tedium, Dad made regular stops at places that now seem hopelessly quaint - alligator wrestling joints, tourist cabins, and dinosaur-themed miniature golf-courses...
...other, The Devil Wears Prada--in which Streep plays Miranda Priestley, the titular infernal being, whose every whim (coffee at a certain temperature, bouquets with no freesias) is attended to as if it were Shari'a law--might fare better. The book was written by a former assistant to Anna Wintour, the longtime editor of Vogue. There's a certain irresistibility to the grande dame of film portraying the grande dame of fashion. Streep sees it. "Whenever I said, 'I'm thinking about doing this thing,' everyone's reaction was, Oh, yesss! Sort of gleeful and venomous," she says. "That...
...training. According to Harvard College Professor and Professor of Psychology Daniel Gilbert’s book “Stumbling on Happiness,” we are often happiest when we make a decision on the fly and it is irreversible. Hence, a student who decides on a whim to sign up for the Marines and becomes legally obligated to perform four years of service will most likely be happier than the student who spends months agonizing over job choices and finally chooses the one with the highest pay with an option to quit whenever he wants. In other words...