Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 4:54pm
Some Facts about the History of V-Day:
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 4:50pm
Singaporeans, Chinese, and South Koreans spend the most money on Valentine’s Day gifts worldwide.
In Japan, it has become an obligation for many women to give chocolates to all male co-workers.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 4:48pm
Sarah Tuttle, a Columbia graduate student, is sitting amid piles of petri dishes, metal coiling, and telescopes. She is trying to place a large, and, as it turns out, rather difficult order. Specifically, she needs a bunch of mirrors re-coated with better aluminum.And she needs them soon.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 4:42pm
I could not help but think, as I circled through nocturnal clouds above the sparkling hills and valleys of Quito, that it is a good thing certain magical and futuristic modes of transportation have not yet been invented.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 4:42pm
Valentine’s Day is a time of young love, old love, budding romance, and cupcakes. Magnolia Bakery opened in 1996 and New York’s baked goods scene has never looked the same since.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 4:37pm
What is the most ridiculous pick-up line you have ever used or had used on you?
1. “Are you on the menu?”—Customer at the coffeehouse, to me, impressionable young cashier —Melanie Jones, Features Managing Editor
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:09pm
There wasn’t much of a New Year’s celebration for consumer-driven companies this year. Reports of disappointing sales and drastic budget cuts tempered the usual holiday cheer.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 2:59pm
Barack Obama may have raised a hand and lifted a nation, but is his food policy something you can believe in?
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 2:46pm
I didn’t consider running away from home until halfway through the third grade, when my mother bought me E.L. Konigsberg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 2:44pm
THE FRESH PRINCE, august bard of a generation, once remarked that, “To you, all the kids across the land / there’s no need to argue / parents just don’t understand.” In the collective narrative of the American youth, those immortal words signify the universal frustration—and ingenuous disappoint