Is it legal to jump the line for iPhones at the Apple Store?
Cutting in line makes you a jerk, not a criminal. For the most part, consumer lines aren’t governed by specific laws. Instead they are the product of informal, unspoken social agreements.
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standinaqueue
Standing in queues across Britain
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How to Sharpen Your [...]
Study Traces Cat’s Ancestry to Middle East
Unlike other domestic animals, which were tamed by people, cats probably domesticated themselves, which could account for the haughty independence of their descendants.
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Iced Coffee? No Sweat - New York Times
Cold-brewed coffee is actually dirt simple to make at home.
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[More on] The Unbearable Lameness of Project [...]
Searle Freedom Trust Grants
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Your Briefcase Just Ran Over My Toe
“I would rather carry a baby grand on a broken back than swish around with a rolling bag.
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As Street Art Goes Commercial, a Resistance Raises a Real Stink
The authors wrote that street art was “a bourgeoisie-sponsored rebellion” that helped pave the way [...]
The Damned: Damned Damned Damned - PopMatters Music Review
While it couldn’t exactly be called obscure, Damned Damned Damned deserves to be regarded as a true classic, must-have record alongside the others.
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Gore Gore Girls: Get the Gore - PopMatters Music Review
this debut release for Bloodshot Records is an excellent hybrid of Sonics style-garage-raunch and ‘60s [...]
Harper’s Weekly Review is all about finding unexpected parallels and connections within torrents of news that wash over us daily. In its cheekiness, the Weekly is not always successful. In this week’s edition, for example, it links the accidental killing of civilians in Afghanistan in a bombing mission with the kidnapping and manipulation of a [...]
Study Says Chatty Doctors Forget Patients - New York Times
“If someone says, ‘I have a problem,’ and you say, ‘I understand because I have it, too,’ that would be comforting.” But, he added, “in truth that never happens.”
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mini bar
Reservations for minibar are taken a month in advance.
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Favorite Foodie Stores - Washington DC & [...]
Hitting the High Notes - Joel on Software
My theory is that it’s because Apple didn’t want to mar the otherwise perfectly smooth, seamless surface of their beautiful, sexy iPod with one of those ghastly battery covers you see on other cheapo consumer crap….
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Japan Adapts to Tuna Shortage: Waiter, There’s Deer in My Sushi [...]
Robert Rodriguez’ Sin City Breakfast Tacos Recipe | Recipezaar
Director Robert Rodriguez, unbeknownst to me does a cooking segment called 10 Minute Cooking School with each of his movies on DVD.
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Modern 50
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Good Eye - 20th Century Interiors
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Screen on the Green 2007-Free Outdoor Movies at the National Mall in Washington, DC
Screen on the Green returns to the Nation’s Capital again this year. The following films will be shown on Monday nights beginning at dusk, around 8:30-9:00 p. m.
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Global Languages
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Got Plans? — washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com
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Capital Fringe - 2007 [...]
How to Take Great Group Photos
While there will always be such challenges with Group Photos there are a number of things you can do to help improve your chances of getting the shot you’re after
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Pastry Chefs, Refusing to Be Sweet - New York Times
Instead they’ve hatched restaurants that usher desserts and the people who [...]