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...WONDER...
...jazzed-out version of Red Line, Wonder Bar draws a youthful, well-heeled crowd. Some of the city’s best live jazz, two stories of over-priced liquors, a posh glass-fronted area and Burberry plaids make Wonder Bar the it place in Allston. While BU students claim it as their own, they are—as usual—mistaken. Hip kids from nearly all the neighboring schools, as well as yuppie twenty-somethings trying to stay with it, can be found scattered throughout Wonder Bar on any given night. Make sure you dress...
...Different people will give different periods in their lives as a clear point in time, the moment when life itself suddenly seems simple and obvious, and when things and events seem to fit together with such ease that one will wonder how on earth life could have been so obvious, what the secret was. There probably is no secret, it’s the kind of memory, a memory that plays up more strongly than all the rest, a recollection tinged with melancholy and regret that makes one yearn for those days of freedom...that later become the rythym...
...only it had a patent lawyer on it too. The multitool market has been flooded with knock-offs, leaving loyal Leatherman owners to wonder, Is the original still the best? To find out, I put four high-end, fully loaded multitools through their paces: the Leatherman Wave ($99), the Gerber Multi-Plier 800 Legend ($136), the Victorinox SwissTool ($75; by the makers of Swiss Army knives) and the SOG PowerLock ($75). Be warned: prolonged exposure to multitools can fuel the dangerous delusion that you secretly are Batman...
...getting a yen-like devaluation. Japanese youth don't work up a proper appetite, they get kobarabeta (a little peckish). The good jobs are disappearing, banks teetering, the population aging, and more and more people in their 20s are forced to live with their folks. It's a wonder the slang isn't gloomier. Nonetheless, in today's Japan, "kinda" is as good as it gets...