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...into that space: tiny workstations and en suite bathrooms about the size of those on jetliners that include luxury "rain showers." There are no exterior windows, allowing the pods to be stacked and clustered in sites never before considered for hotels. "It's a very flexible product," says Russell Kett, managing director of hotel consultants HVS in London. The Gatwick Yotel is being crammed into a previously unused basement of the airport's South Terminal. The squeeze on space helps to shrink prices: rates are $107 for a standard room and $156 for a slightly larger cabin. While those charges...
Just ask E.D. Hirsch, whose educational philosophy mirrors Bacon's conclusion. Hirsch, an English professor at the University of Virginia, has enlisted the assistance of Joseph F. Kett and James Trefil to save our nation from cultural stagnation, assembling The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, a collection of specific knowledge of, according to the weighty hardcover's bold subtitle, "What Every American Needs to Know." But there is no power in this book's knowledge...
...ones on literature, but summaries of several other disciplines lack substance as well. Perhaps Hirsch could offer a suggested reading list for elementary knowledge in fields like economics, anthropology, politics and psychology, but his glossy treatment of the fields does not do them justice. Even the dictionary's highlights--Kett's history chapters and Hirsch's chapters on the Bible and mythology--would be better served by a more extensive treatment than a list of key terms...
...ready, and for the first time in my life, all I'm thinking about is swimming, that's all." Beckmann said last night from her hotel in Folkestone, Kett, England...
Joseph F. Kett, Jr.; A.B. (1959) Holy Cross, Ph.D. (1964) Harvard...