Word: checking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after-dinner diversions, head for La Boutique, tel: (52-222) 482 0603, a dance club with international DJs. Come daytime, meander though the city's compact colonial center, passing its 17th century Catedral de Puebla. Check out the antique shops lining Callejón de los Sapos or splurge on intricately detailed, floral-patterned Talavera tiles at the Uriarte Talavera Factory, www.uriartetalavera.com.mx, which has been in business since 1824. True, Puebla's charms are a world away from Mexico City's all-hours action. But for a growing number of cognoscenti, that's no bad thing...
During the week, Gupta uses the plane to train engineering students and flight attendants. On weekends, under the billing Aeroplanet, it is open to the public and school groups. Poor villagers and students can visit free. "Passengers" check in, receive boarding passes and climb a steep metal staircase to enter the plane. Flight attendants then run them through the safety procedures, serve them snacks and cold drinks and answer questions about how an aircraft works. In a nod to a more innocent time, passengers are free to visit the pilots in the cockpit. "We are fulfilling life wishes," says Gupta...
This temptation to obsession is the new frontier of behavioral science. Where and how we use our devices define our species and sensibility. A whole new school of Edith Wharton etiquette arises. It's O.K. for your boss to check his BlackBerry at lunch, because he's a Very Important Person, but God help you if you get caught even glancing down when yours pings. When college students meet for coffee, their cell phones are out on the table, windows facing up. Among the most e-mailed stories in the New York Times a couple of weeks back...
Ever wish you could just get out of a relationship? Then check out George Feydeau’s French farce “Take Her, She’s Yours!”—translated by Norman R. Shapiro ’51—which will open Nov. 19 at the Adams House Pool Theatre. It’s the story of a husband trying to find a new man for his ambivalent wife after he starts having an affair. The Roving Reporter stopped by their dress rehearsal to feel the love.Maria “Masha?...
...During a competitive speed-reading of Mitch Albom’s best-selling non-fiction masterpiece, “45:33” had startlingly different effects on the test subjects. AFN: Finished book with astounding speed. Even had time to write a response paper on it. Received check minus on said paper. Hypothesis: “45:33” severely affects reading comprehension. RLD: Cried during the sad chapters. Also danced furiously during the sad chapters. The combination of sweat and tears made paperback copy unreadable. Result: LOSER. WATERYOUDOING? The lab subjects played an old summer camp game...