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...Seine River in Paris, has seen many an interesting traveler in its day. Historically associated with great writers such as Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce, the store is filled with beds where writers and artists can live in the shop at no charge. Their only obligations are to tend to the shop for an hour a day and read one book a day. Bohemians and counter-culture rebels have for many years passed in and out of the shop in their quests for enlightenment and artistic expression. Last month, they bunked with a linebacker...
Austen’s characters tend to be caricatures of virtues and vices, according to Smith...
Researchers say men and women respond to friendship differently. While men are more likely to bond over a football game and talk about gadgets, women tend to seek intimate relationships in which they can reveal more of themselves. "A woman's inclination to get together and be supported by women friends is a basic process that has its roots in ancient neurocircuitry," says Shelley Taylor, professor of psychology at UCLA and author of The Tending Instinct: Women, Men and the Biology of Relationships (Times Books). She says having a close friend can be a life-enhancing experience in more ways...
During spring break, college students tend to travel to such places as Cancun and Daytona Beach, Fla. High school students, on the other hand, tend to travel to colleges. Spring break is one of the peak periods for the college-campus tour, that rite of passage in which high school students and their parents visit centers of higher learning to determine where the child should spend four years and the parents untold thousands of dollars. This year, however, some ugly realities are upsetting collegiate itineraries. War in Iraq has many families concerned about traveling, and the lackluster economy makes...
...problem with the Web tours, however, is that they tend to be carefully edited. Jim Conroy, chairman of the college counseling department at New Trier high school in Winnetka, Ill., says, for example, that colleges rarely include pictures of the campus in winter...