NY Sun:
Buying sofas, stealing beauty.
NY Times:
Vinyl tops endure. Maybe a good example of the theory mentioned in the link below?
Need toner?
CNN:
Oxygen, not booze, draws students to bar. Puts me in mind of this.
Invention of
Dixie Cups. I assume everyone knows what a dixie cup is, but these days, you can never be sure.
NY Times:
Uneasy Riders. Posers, you mean.
Guardian.UK:
Say it isn’t so! Truffle farmers feel the heat. “After further gloomy news about the premature heat-related deaths of millions of prize chickens, the death by suffocation of much of the country’s trout stocks, the shrivelling of the honey crop, and the withering of thousands of hectares of fruit trees, the latest cause of the French gourmet’s annus horribilis looks certain to be the truffle.” An inauspicious year for the gourmand.