| 1 | It is Japanese custom to slurp while you eat foods such as soup. | |
| 2 | You know you can wow the person across the desk with your accomplishments. | |
| 3 | "Life is easier now, " he says, puffing on a cigarette in the new brick home that the authorities have given him. | |
| 4 | The country that tut-tuts at Europe' s mega-holidays thinks nothing of giving its children such a lazy summer. | |
| 5 | The panelists said nothing as they swirled and sniffed the heated oils in their small tasting glasses, tinted blue to eliminate any consideration of color, then sipped, slurped and spat. |