Americans abroad are frequently surprised to discover that tipping is actually optional elsewhere, and visitors to the United States are frequently baffled by how much is expected and how non-negotiable…
An American arriving in Italy or France in August and discovering that the windows have shutters, glass and nothing else is reliably astonished. An Italian arriving in Ohio and finding…
Stand on an American building site and what you see does not look like a house. It looks like a very large piece of furniture: a lattice of identical thin…
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Proposed and balloted, with a sick fund and a burial plot. Here are ten.
1. Joining Required Somebody Already Inside to Propose You
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You could not apply.…
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All quarters, nobody working there, and a floor built to flood. Here are eleven.
1. The Machines Took Quarters and Nothing Else
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Every machine was coin-operated, the slide…
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A balance, a soda fountain and a label that did not name the drug. Here are twelve.
1. The Pharmacist Made the Medicine Rather Than Counting It Out
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