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...result, nearly every high-end chain is expanding. The Shangri-La, Oberoi, Le Meridien, Hyatt and Taj chains are either upgrading or searching for new properties. In Rajasthan, for example, which shares a border with Pakistan, the ritzy Amanresorts International is opening two exclusive destinations, one a tented camp near a famous tiger reserve and the other, a hotel inside a palace in the so-called Blue City of Jodhpur, where virtually all the buildings are painted the same bright...
...some parents who review children’s books on online review forums such as Amazon.com give detailed accounts of their children’s boredom, disinterest or genuine dislike of their books, and they have taken action accordingly. Though children are at the end of the consumption chain, their position is important nonetheless...
...proposals are simply a bow to Republican donors residing in insurance lobbies. They’ve gone as far as accusing Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the majority leader and a heart surgeon, of “participating in the debate since his family founded the H.C.A. hospital chain and its subsidiary malpractice insurer, Health Care Indemnity...
...Life itself supplies a regular stream of events--roughly 3.2 billion an hour, according to scientists. With the advent of computers, it has become a simple matter to rank all events in order of their suitability as news, using the famous Gannett scale, developed by the well-known newspaper chain and involving such factors as the impact of an event on other events, the number of proper names that are difficult to spell (a negative factor) and the involvement of people from diverse backgrounds (a plus, obviously...
...promising field of nanotechnology. A new study, however, has raised concerns about their possible toxicity. A solution of buckyballs caused "severe" brain damage to young largemouth bass in a lab aquarium (it also wiped out populations of the water flea, Daphnia, an ecologically important link in the food chain). While it isn't known whether buckyballs could pose a danger to humans, the study urges further investigation of the fledgling technology's potential risks. --David Bjerklie