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Buzzword: "Unplugged weddings" are becoming very popular in the United Kingdom and have advantages for all involved. An unplugged wedding simply means that the guests are politely asked not to use phones, cameras or other devices during the wedding or at least during the wedding service or ceremony. More and more couples are asking guests to turn off their devices during the ceremony.

Bilingual news: Every culture has rules - some implicit - about the roles of gender and age. When they collide, predicaments arise. A few years ago, when I was traveling across the Pacific Ocean on a United Airlines flight, I was thrown into the perfect storm of cultural collisions. It was nothing melodramatic, but rather, quiet and imperturbable in a Chekhovian kind of way.