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...strangers, Western music or the mass media, while others let students mingle freely with visitors. And whether it's the pesantren where a Sharon Stone movie is hurriedly replaced with a prayer video when visitors arrive, or the one where teenage girls can't leave their dormitories unveiled but clutter their rooms with pictures of American pop stars, the outside world seeps in. In Java, the call to prayer echoes across highways on which unveiled women ride motorbikes in Western dress...
...preschooler paints a masterpiece, it is usually hung on the family fridge. But eventually the artwork piles up in a box under the bed--or winds up in the Dumpster. But Chicago entrepreneur Angela Mendez has launched an ingenious service aimed at preserving children's creative efforts and eliminating clutter. Her business, Me, My Room and I, takes kids' artwork or poetry and turns it into collages, murals, wallpaper border or giant stickers. The art is scanned and then imaginatively transformed into custom-made keepsakes and decorations. Prices range from $88 for 12 ft. of customized wallpaper border...
When most people hear about vintage things, they conjure up someone's broken-down clutter or maybe a quaint item of dress. But others, like writer EllynAnne Geisel, find in worn wood, rusty hinges and faded cloth the fingerprints of other lives. As she stood ironing a vintage apron some years ago, Geisel realized it had been carefully made by hand. That sparked a sense of connection to the woman who had cut and stitched the cloth and then ironed the apron dozens of times before...
...Mary Lou Retton catapulted onto Madison Avenue in 1984. Back then, the sports-marketing industry was just starting to think outside the Wheaties box. As marketing muscle has become more sophisticated amid proliferating cable channels, the Olympics have remained among the few events that can rise above all the clutter, a 17-day Super Bowl in search of iconic moments. As a result, the handful of Olympic hopefuls who get singled out for their potential star power have started demanding more cash than they did a few quadrenniums ago. "Ten times as much," says Brandon Steiner, who negotiates endorsement deals...
...clients make decisions about well-loved possessions. "You have to be gentle enough to listen to someone's story about their grandmother's Spode but strong enough to ask, 'so which is your favorite china? let's take that one.'" Clients who presort save on hourly rates, says Warren. Clutter bugs end up paying a premium as they sit in a comfortable chair and discuss the fate of each item with a sorter...