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...reaction has been mixed. Corbin and King are known for their clubby interiors and Nanny-knows-best comfort dishes. Yet St Alban, housed in a former BBC radio studio, features jet-set banquettes with turquoise and amethyst upholstery in a vast, brightly lit space reminiscent of an airline lounge. The food is a Mediterranean mélange of influences stretching from Venice to Lisbon, under the command of Southern Italian chef Francesco Mazzei...
...particular, fosters an exceptionally insidious anti-sleep culture that compounds the conventional collegiate obstacles to sleep with demands arising from its ultra-competitive environment. This culture—or our sleep patterns—cannot be changed by a few well-meaning seminars and pamphlets. The problem is vast, but the solution is simple, sweet, and already known: Each of us must make a proactive decision to reform personal sleep habits and thus recreate the culture of sleep at Harvard...
...years ago, sites like Sanotc.com couldn't have existed because there was no stock to trade. The vast majority of Vietnam's companies belonged wholly to the state. But as part of the government's move to a free-market economy, some 3,600 state-owned companies have been partially privatized by issuing shares to employees, managers and the public-who in turn have sold them through the Internet and in private deals with family, friends and acquaintances. This is capitalism in the raw. When deals are struck, whether online or over tea, purchasers take physical possession of the shares...
...Adler, 93, physicist for Zenith who, with colleague Eugene Polley, invented the first commercially successful wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...
...cold, bland, dark colors of those characters loyal to the state are complemented by the warm, decorative, and vibrant surroundings of more liberal characters. The plot centers on the government of the GDR, a prevalent force in the lives of East Germany’s citizens through a vast system of spies and security controls. With the help of the Stasi secret police forces, the GDR monitors the country for potential disloyalty. “The Lives of Others” captures human compassion at its most sophisticated level, as Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), a famous East German writer...