SHOPPING Department Stores Galeries Lafayette (40 boulevard Haussman Paris 9e) Metro Opera or Chausee d’Antin Nice historical department store, great dome ceiling inside` Le bon marché  and gourmet deparment store La Grande Epicerie (38 Rue de Sevres, Paris 7e) Metro Sevres Babylone Check the gourmet store there. You shoudl get a pastry there…[Read more]

PRACTICAL INFO Transportation : RATP http://www6.ratp.info/touristes/index.php?langue=en check this link which is the link for touristical website. Once you get in Paris, just go to a RATP desk and you might want to get a ticket for the week so that you can travel as much as you want in Paris (which is zone 1 &2 , be [...]

Sightseeing: The whole Chanps-Elysees, Place de la concorde, Jardin des tuileries, Musee du Louvre is definitely worth it. Nice walk, the louvre is amazing but too big, choose a few galleries and don’t overdo it. It’s crowded and exhausting. There are a few nice cafes / restaurant actually in the Jardin des tuileries. Another area not to [...]

How Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society EDITORS: ADRIAN T. SOBOTTA IRENE N. SOBOTTA JOHN GOTZE Copyright 2009 The GreeningIT Initiative CCAttribution Non-CommercialShareAlike This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License v3.0. To view a copy of this license visit:…[Read more]

How To Calculate Return On Investment The  Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restaurants, music, local real estate, local businesses. In these investments we are usually backing an entrepreneur we’ve gotten to know who delivers products to the market that we use and love. The Gotham [...]

Forbidden love, muslim romance. Qaas and Laila were two star crossed lovers. Qays ibn al-Mulawwah ibn Muzahim, was a  Bedouin poet. He fell in love with Layla bint Mahdi ibn Sa’d (better known as Layla Al-Aamiriya) from the same tribe. He soon began composing  poems about his love for her, mentioning her name often. When he asked for [...]

Dennis T. Villareal, M.D., Suresh Chode, M.D., Nehu Parimi, M.D., David R. Sinacore, P.T., Ph.D., Tiffany Hilton, P.T., Ph.D., Reina Armamento-Villareal, M.D., Nicola Napoli, M.D., Ph.D., Clifford Qualls, Ph.D., and Krupa Shah, M.D., M.P.H. N Engl J Med 2011; 364:1218-1229March 31, 2011 BACKGROUND Obesity exacerbates the age-related decline in…[Read more]

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The Library recently acquired an important collection of photographs by William P. Gottlieb, a jazz columnist who shot some 1,500 portraits of more than 250 jazz musicians from 1938 to the late 1940s. Mr. Gottlieb’s photographs have great appeal in the jazz world because they are not only what one critic called “very penetrating pictures [...]

Pakistan has had a very strong performance in this year’s ICC World Cup. Namely, in the group stage, they have managed to beat the previously unbeaten Aussies, as well as the highly-touted Sri Lankan squad. Now that they have routed the West Indies in the quarter-finals by ten wickets, they seem to be the most [...]

The ICC World Cup semi-final between Pakistan and India promises to be a match for the ages. In addition to the tens of thousands of passionate fans, for whom cricket is practically a religion, the crowd will also include top government officials and business tycoons from both countries, not to mention Indian Prime Minister Manmohan [...]

“Boy, how it makes you wish, looking at them, that you could hear the music of the instant,” Mr. Bamberger said. “Bill’s photos are of performance art captured through the lens of another art,” that of writing critical reviews. Mr. Gottlieb began work at the Washington Post as an advertising agent and later started a [...]

The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at…[Read more]

Climate The city of Dubai is situated on a coastal strip bordered by desert and gets very hot. It is dry on the hottest days and humid during the cooler days in the summer. Cooler, more pleasant weather lasts from the end of September to beginning of May (although note that pleasant is relative, with daily [...]

Climate The city of Dubai is situated on a coastal strip bordered by desert and gets very hot. It is dry on the hottest days and humid during the cooler days in the summer. Cooler, more pleasant weather lasts from the end of September to beginning of May (although note that pleasant is relative, with daily [...]

Dubai is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is rather like an independent city-state and is the most modern and progressive emirate in the UAE, developing at an unbelievable pace in the tourist and trade sectors especially. Districts Satwa — One of Dubai’s Little India and Little Manila, due [...]

Dubai is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is rather like an independent city-state and is the most modern and progressive emirate in the UAE, developing at an unbelievable pace in the tourist and trade sectors especially. Districts Satwa — One of Dubai’s Little India and Little Manila, due [...]