Word: wintered
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With its Chinese lettering and unremarkable name, the fast-food outlet in a Shanghai shopping mall looks like many others selling local fare. East Dawning is crowded with customers on this winter evening, and they're sampling a menu that includes pork fried rice, marinated egg and plum juice. Stanley Yao, a restaurateur from Hong Kong who is opening a sushi joint nearby, dines here once a month. The food is "a little too oily," he says, but he likes the soy-milk drinks, and "the prices, of course, are very reasonable." (A meal of noodles, tea and custard dessert...
...houses like Bottega Veneta and Ferragamo. Bottega Veneta designer Tomas Maier said he had been inspired by functional work wear from the 19th century. At Ferragamo the theme was discreet luxury, with loosened up pea coats lined in lynx. Shoppers can look forward to fending off the chill next winter - whether or not the weather complies...
...There seems to be an overwhelming sentiment to have exams before the winter break so that students could have a real break without having exams hanging over them,” Hyman said...
Harvard unveiled a new academic calendar yesterday that synchronizes the schedules of the University’s 13 schools, adds a three-week term in January, and moves final exams for undergraduates before winter break...
...Having a January term will be a lot more fun and you can get a lot more done than you can in a week,” she said. “You have to take exams before winter break, which is painful, but students at other schools survive...