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...site Kaiser Bar, before heading across the street for dinner at the historic 1905, tel: (977-1) 422 5272 - a venerable restaurant that has seen many a state function in its day (Queen Elizabeth II herself has dined there). If you've booked rooms at Hotel Yak and Yeti, tel: (977-1) 424 8999 - which despite its name is no backpacker hostel but a five-star hotel - then you're just a five-minute walk from home. (See 25 authentic Asian experiences...
Everyone knows to shave against the grain. That’s why the girls have it easy when it comes to shaving: one leg, one grain (unless she’s got behind-the-knee hair, in which case she should drop out of Harvard and enroll in Yeti College?...
...Birmingham businessmen whose firm was optimistically called Phoenix Venture Holdings. Their idea of a great car: the MG SV, introduced in 2002 with a starting price of $120,000. Only about 50 have been sold. Garel Rhys, an automotive expert at Cardiff University Business School, quips: "It's the yeti car. Everyone's heard of it, but no one has seen one." Last year, overall MG Rover sales were down to just over 100,000, less than half what the firm needed to break even. BMW invested more than $4 billion in Rover, but even the firm's smartest...
...think people are going to be disappointed with the yeti in the forest," warns Hicks, who says the apes he has seen are clearly chimps, although some are strangely oversize. "The evidence doesn't point to [a new species]. I think what needs to be focused on is the cultural differences." In addition to building ground nests, the apes fish for ants with tools that are several times longer than those used by known chimp populations. For now, Hicks is concentrating on habituating the animals, getting them accustomed to the noisy, nosy presence of researchers. The science--and the videotapes...
...slothful and sloppy of lazy layabouts. Banned from public places—either through cold stares or more formal door policies—the Ugg was the ultimate in fashion faux pas. That was, at least, until unlikely style icon Pamela Anderson was spotted sporting a pair of the yeti-esque boots on the streets of LA. Suddenly the trend went ballistic trans-pacific. Fashion victims on the west coast paired with Juicy Couture trackpants for lounging about the house; across the country in colder climes, however, they’ve been granted fully-fledged status as supposedly stylish outdoor...