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...Located in Gangnam?Seoul's business heart?the 185-room hotel is the work of avant-garde Tokyo design studio SuperPotato. Fashioned from stone, oak and maple?and featuring lots of natural light?its public spaces are minimalist without being austere. A similar approach is used in guest rooms?but the highlight here is undoubtedly the lavish bathroom in each. Occupying one-third of a standard room, each bathroom features walls of floor-to-ceiling glass, looking over the city skyline as well as into the bedroom. As for amenities, there's a rooftop pool and spa (the views...
...couldn't stop looking at your cover picture. I didn't dwell on the disturbing gauze mask the bombing victim was holding to her face, but I was struck by the astonishing compassion of the man helping her. For every stone-cold killer, there is an equal and opposite force for good...
...video of Indian families cremating their loved ones on the Ganges but also one of a rapper who dresses as a jelly doughnut--which is funny for the first 40 seconds or so of its four minutes. A video account of the experiences of Current's executive director, Evan Stone, as a new parent (complete with a close-up of a dirty diaper) gives the feeling of being forced to watch a home movie...
...archaeological record suggests that a particular style of stone tool might have been used for a hundred thousand years without revision or modification during the first two million years of our history. For Westerners who see their technology and gadgets superseded on what can feel like a weekly basis, it is hard to believe we belong to the same species as people who did not know the wheel...
...name Enola Gay painted on its nose would forget little about that long day. They remembered staying up through the night and eating breakfast long before dawn. Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south end of the Japanese island of Honshu, at 8:15 a.m.; the crew was 15 seconds...