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...lakeside hamlet of Zell am See - has set out to prove that there's more to Austria's high-altitude resorts than knotty wood paneling and endless chintz. "Having traveled the world, I wanted to create something that would eventually bring it back here to me," says proprietor and native son Herbert Bren of his $11.4 million brainchild. A collaboration between Munich-based architects Niki Szilagyi and Evi Märklstetter, the Mavida [an error occurred while processing this directive] comprises 47 sparse but tasteful rooms, each with open granite showers, private balconies and widescreen views of the Alps. Public...
CLAIM TO FAME The proprietor of treehugger.com a for-profit online magazine and store, wants to make sustainability mainstream. He employs 25 staff members around the world to write news and reviews of modern yet green products and services. "No one has three hours to search for a pair of organic jeans," says Hill. "So we created a prolific blog that people enjoy reading while increasing their eco-smarts." With 20,000 visitors a day and a searchable archive of 5,500 posts, it's the largest green-lifestyle website out there. And there are TreeHuggerTV weekly videos and podcasts...
...don’t blame the lineup for the lackluster material; instead, blame legendary Studio One owner and producer Clement Seymour Dodd, a.k.a. “Coxsone.” Coxsone was part Elvis manager Colonel Tom Parker and part Motown Records proprietor Barry Gordy. He shared Parker’s view that music was more business than art, and he demanded the Wailers produce songs on demand. The group spent two years in a trailer behind Coxsone’s place of business, toking up and pumping out new material. If the lazy tone of the two-disc collection...
...thought it was a metropolitan megacampus, or any campus at all, better guess again. By the sheer number of credentials granted, it's the American Council on Education, a Washington-based lobbying group that moonlights as the proprietor of the General Education Development, or GED, Testing Service. In 2004 alone, the Council granted over 400,000 GED certificates to people of all ages, most of them high school dropouts...
...only does it have those formal characteristics, but also the history of Café Pamplona in Cambridge doubles [the effect],” he says. “Anyone who is familiar with Cambridge knows that café.”Pamplona’s proprietor, Josefina Yanguas, who has run the café for 47 years, welcomed the idea of art in her restaurant.But even Yanguas was a bit scared by the size of the structure. “I didn’t have any idea,” Yanguas says, “I thought that...