Word: bathes
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...apartment on the top floor was reserved exclusively for co-founder Sir Malcolm McAlpine. Today, it's available to anyone - or rather, anyone who can spare $35,000 a night (and is thus not merely anyone but probably a rather grand someone). The amenities include 24-carat gold-plated bath fixtures, a fully equipped hairdressing station and carpets woven with 22-carat gold and silver threads. This is the most expensive place to stay in town - quite a superlative, given the sorts of prices the British capital is notorious...
...However Chait, whose 2002 book “The Question of Tenure” explores both sides of the issue, is quick to add that tenure has its benefits. “That isn’t to say that the baby needs to be thrown out with the bath water,” he says. “It also allows people to do controversial research on DNA, genetic engineering, research on the ill effects of tobacco, and a whole line of valuable inquiry that people find politically offensive...
...people do this? There's an obvious benefit," says Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine who is famous for her critical work on the recovered memories of alleged sexual-abuse victims. "It may not be immediately financial. But certainly being bathed in a love bath of attention and affection is a lot of benefit for a lot of people...
...Comes to a not very nice end. This kid's survival skills are about what you'd expect of a nice middle-class boy, who may have read his Thoreau, but who neglected to cultivate a Ralph Waldo Emerson he could count on for a warm bath and square meal when he really needed them. And despite the best efforts of Emile Hirsch, there's something annoying about him, too. He's too secure in his self-righteousness, too smug in his conviction that his is the only viable path to self-fulfillment. A lot of the dropouts he encounters...
...countries and revenue of $986 million in 2005. But more impressive than the numbers are the ideals behind them. In an industry that relies on people feeling bad about themselves to push products, Roddick made her millions helping people feel good and do good. To the Queen of Green, bath salts and foot lotion were just the hook, a way to get people into her stores - which she called "billboards" - to learn about the issues she loudly and tirelessly campaigned for, from the environment to fair trade to human rights...