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...They had already dealt with my fur coats and evening dresses with scissors. The ceiling fan was whirling. Bits of fur, silk and torn tissue paper were flying around. Tables and chairs were overturned. In my bedroom, the bedspread was soiled with footprints. The Red Guards had slashed the mattress, punched holes in the lacquered screen, smashed the porcelain lamps and crushed their white silk lampshades. In the largest guest room, where the Red Guards had carried out most of their cutting and smashing, a radio set was broadcasting revolutionary songs based on Mao's quotations. A female voice...
...supermax prison in Youngstown, Ohio. Every inmate lives alone in a 7-ft. by 14-ft. cell that resembles nothing so much as a large, concrete closet, equipped with a sink, a toilet, a desk and a molded stool and sleep platform covered by a thin mattress. The solid metal door is outfitted with strips around the sides and bottom, muffling conversation with inmates in adjacent cells. Three times a day, a tray of food is delivered and is eaten alone. The prisoner may spend 23 hours a day in lockdown, emerging to exercise once a day. The lights...
Saturday morning the sun poured in as I checked the room. The bed was at chest height, made up and empty, with clean, fresh sheets over the vinyl mattress. As I turned to leave, I was blocked by a nurse, an older Irish lady with a doleful look on her face. She had taken care of David last night...
Sales of natural mattresses have not been resting. Several years ago, Vivètique's natural-latex mattress sales--prices range from $2,000 to $9,000, excluding the foundation--represented less than 5% of its mattress revenues. In 2006, sales of its Natural Bedroom natural-latex mattresses--which have been increasing at a rate of about 35% for each of the past four years, and whose mattresses Vivètique wholesales to more than 400 retailers in the U.S., Canada and Australia--brought in close to $4 million for the company...
Jean Corriveau, the company's founder and owner, says the product has gone beyond early adapters and "green" retailers. "Now we go head to head against mainstream brands and specialty mattresses like Tempur-Pedic and into traditional bedding stores which, three years ago, would have been unthinkable," he says. "That's where the growth is now, in mainstream stores that want something more unique." Green Sleep's best-selling Vimala mattress retails for about $5,000, including the foundation. Thirty-five retailers and spas carry Green Sleep...