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Turnout for the four-hour event surpassed the predictions of Thrive’s organizers, with many students taking time to stop at every booth and enter raffles to win prizes such as an iPod, a hammock, or an hour-long back massage, as they picked up tips for a more healthful lifestyle...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MAC Event Tackles Stress | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...more capable of handling the Australian economy (Latham was preferred by 27%). Since the conservative government was elected in March 1996, the economy has grown by one-third. Unemployment has fallen from 8.5% to 5.7%. Mortgage rates have dropped from 10.5% to 6.5%. Inflation has been sleeping in a hammock, slung at a rate of 2-3%, for a decade. That's the good news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Can Keep the Good Times Rolling? | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...that into legal work, and he has found a terrific secondary outlet for it,” says George Andreou ’87, Begley’s editor at Alfred A. Knopf. “I don’t have a vision of Louis snoozing in a hammock on Memorial Day weekend...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New York Lawyer Finds Second Career in Passion for Literature | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...because the ladder is then removed. Choose between a "bohème service," which means you bring your own food and bed linen, or the more comfortable deluxe option, where meals and blankets are hoisted up to you in a basket. There's a kitchen, bedroom, veranda with a hammock and-rest assured-a toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stay and Play | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...heads when asked if an investigation is ongoing. Few will even discuss the incident because in Cambodia corruption and bribery are endemic, and retribution can be severe for those who interfere in profitable criminal enterprises. "These are things we don't talk about," says Khieu Kort, a guard whose hammock hangs near the looted site. "It's too dangerous." Tranet is less circumspect. He blames the country's "chaotic political system," which encourages Cambodians to pillage, protected by local authorities who sometimes receive a piece of the action. "Last year [Cambodian Prime Minister] Hun Sen accused the West of stealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Looted Treasures: Stealing Beauty | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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