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...them to the public as the Hotel Royal, eventually acquiring the entire palace, which still welcomes guests today as the glittering Hotel Danieli. Many suites feature 18th century furniture and ceiling paintings; period artworks, some from the Caravaggio school, adorn the walls, and the decor - pink marble floors, gold-leaf columns and Murano glass chandeliers - are enough to make an old archduke weep. Rates vary by season. tel: (39-041) 522 6480; www.hoteldanielivenice.com SPAIN In 1928 the Spanish government began rescuing its architectural treasures by converting them into paradores, or inns. One of the finest is the Parador de Granada...
...When the water moves, it changes the curvature in the leaf in one direction that causes it to flip like a tennis ball or a contact lens,” said Mahadevan, whose first Venus flytrap came in 2002 as a gift from Dumais, who was then a post-doctoral student in Mahadevan?...
This precautionary measure helps the plant prevent a “false alarm,” an unnecessary closing due to a touch such as that of a falling leaf, rather than an insect, he explained...
...years, when his master plan for the World Trade Center site was being squeezed and adulterated, when the vivid spike that was his design for its centerpiece Freedom Tower was being reworked by other hands, Libeskind kept up a pretty chipper demeanor in public. It's only when you leaf through his memoir Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture, in which the bitterness seeps through and he takes swipes at everyone who tried to push him aside in the design process, that you know for sure that sometimes the laughs came hard...
...used to noise, we hardly hear it anymore. Wailing car alarms, barking dogs, roaring leaf blowers, honking horns, grumbling washing machines, blaring TVs, squeaking baby toys--they all add up to the sound track of daily life. If it's not enough to drive you insane, says the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, it can still make you sick. Some 30 million Americans are exposed to daily noise levels that will eventually impair their hearing. Moreover, those who were destined to go deaf are doing so decades earlier than expected. Although it takes noises louder than 85 decibels...