TRY finding a vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai, or a vegetarian, for that matter. The odds are a hundred to one that you won’t. But China’s largest metropolis is home to both. As the listings in any local English language periodical will tell you, the city has around 15 vegetarian restaurants. "Not enough," says Evelyn Lee, […]
Not so “Cool” – Words Don’t Mean They Same Things They Once Did
Some years ago when someone said,”guys”, it strictly meant the male of human species. Not anymore. Now “guys” can refer to boys and girls, and man and women. And for teenagers ‘crush’ means something more pleasant and far removed from ‘compress’. It’s time to overhaul your old vocabulary and the Wren-and-Martin rules of English […]
10 Today
Today’s Ten People are the ex-flatmate breezing lazily in to lift a saucepan as if it is a nest-egg left to mature, now required to be invested somewhere else; the dizzy girl in the supermarket balancing breakfast biscuits on her head (cream-filled); the pensioner with unexplained mud-streaks on his trousers who walks straight through […]
Most Returned Children’s Toys of the 2006 Holiday Season
The 2006 holiday season saw an unprecedented surge in the sale of next-generation video game systems and enormous stuffed ponies. But what of the parents who waited to start their holiday shopping? They were forced to choose from among the unfortunate dregs of the holiday sales push. Without further ado, the most returned toys of […]