Word: wintered
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...jobs. Homelessness is on the rise in South Korea's capital, Seoul, where at 2 a.m. each night the city's largest train station becomes a makeshift hostel as scores of 6-ft.-long benches are taken up by dozing men and women seeking shelter from Korea's icy winter nights...
...might think that this kind of entertainment would have died with Lehman Brothers. But as the U.S. economy sank this winter, Bravo's series scored their highest ratings ever. As the parade of CEO hearings--slash--public shamings on Capitol Hill has shown, and Bravo underscores, the wealthy may not be universally loved, but they're America's favorite spectacle...
...cruise industry barely made it back to port last year. Miami-based Royal Caribbean reported a 98% drop in fourth-quarter earnings. The winter months, or "wave season," are its busiest period; yet onboard traffic at many lines is down at least 25%. But the more important reason cruise lines are desperate to sell tickets is that their real revenue comes not from fares but from onboard spending. The industry's dilemma, says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of CruiseCritic.com, is that "if it takes fares this low to get me onboard, am I really going to spend that much...
...cruise industry, once thought recession-proof, is rolling out the deep-discount gangway in this crisis. Chicagoan Shirlee Yeary says she and her husband "were going to forget our winter getaway this year because of the economy." But her travel agency, Cruise Holidays, saw a deluxe cabin for a week in the Caribbean on a brand new ship, the Celebrity Solstice, at almost half price. For $1,100 per person, Yeary, who says she's never experienced the swank side of cruising, also gets a veranda, complimentary champagne, daily hors d'oeuvres and preferential treatment on shore excursions. "I wasn...
...Taliban has destroyed more than 180 schools across the valley, mostly girls' schools but a number of boys schools too. Now government schools are expected to reopen in March, after the winter break. Government officials insist that under Mohammed's Shari'a regulations, the Taliban's prohibition on female education will be lifted. But many of the teachers who were threatened have fled the area and are too fearful to return anytime soon. "The Taliban have threatened us not to come back," says Zunaiba Hayat, a 35-year-old middle-school teacher who moved to Islamabad after her school...