The Life Shed

Virginia, Florida have most well-read cities in US: poll

Doctor Life — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:27:38 +0000

NEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 3:38pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read city in the United States. Alexandria was one of three Virginia cities on the Amazon.com list [...]

English the preferred language for world business: poll

Doctor Life — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:27:34 +0000

By Chris Michaud NEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 9:58am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Workers whose jobs require them to interact with people in foreign countries say that English is the dominant language of business, according to a new poll. More than one quarter of employees in 26 countries around the world told [...]

Afghan woman pushes for rights from behind the wheel

Doctor Life — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:15:30 +0000

By Miriam Arghandiwal KABUL | Tue May 15, 2012 12:09pm EDT KABUL (Reuters) – The morning after the Taliban fell Shakila Naderi shed her head-to-toe burqa, sat behind the wheel of a car for the first time and asked her husband to teach her how to drive. Now Kabul’s only female driving instructor, she teaches [...]

World Chefs: Playful Aduriz masters culinary mind games

Doctor Life — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:15:22 +0000

By Claire Sibonney TORONTO | Tue May 15, 2012 8:20am EDT TORONTO (Reuters) – Basque chef Andoni Luis Aduriz, the culinary conjurer behind one of the top-ranked restaurant in the world, enjoys a good gag as he lets his imagination run wild at Mugaritz, set in the hills outside San Sebastian in northern Spain. An [...]

Up on the roof of NY’s Met museum in "Cloud City"

Doctor Life — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:02:42 +0000

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK | Mon May 14, 2012 3:00pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno combines art, architecture and science in a striking installation on the rooftop garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that gives visitors a different perspective of the sky, clouds and the city around them. “Cloud [...]