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...feelings of uselessness that I’ve inflicted upon myself. There are frequently days when I go into work at 9:00 a.m. and don’t take a break until 5:00 p.m., when I’m supposed to go home. But despite needing a bath and a nap for my tired body, I am nagged by a persistent feeling that I hadn’t done anything. Telling other people what to do doesn’t translate into feeling like you’ve done anything yourself...
...Amazingly, Thakur has retained this same sense of urgency and outrage even in the face of decades of disappointment. Taking her latest class of students on a tour of Mehrauli recently, she showed them the mosques, bath houses and orchards of the last Mughal Emperor and a tomb that British resident Sir Thomas Metcalf converted into a summer house and terraced garden. "Oh, God, oh, God," she repeats softly at the sight of one poorly executed renovation after another. "We've lost so much already," she laments. And yet, as always, Thakur determines to keep fighting. "It's a fantastic...
...despite the fact that the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is currently proposing that Lutyens' New Delhi be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The destruction of probably the world's greatest colonial townscape would be an act of cultural vandalism comparable to the bulldozing of Bath or Washington, D.C. Yet in New Delhi there has been remarkably little outcry...
...People are always surprised to learn that we still make anything here in the U.S.," says Springs Industries CEO Crandall Bowles. The largest home-furnishings company in North America, Springs and its 14,000 employees crank out bedding and bath products, rugs and window coverings in 30 manufacturing facilities in 13 states, Canada and Mexico. Its brand names and licenses--including Wamsutta, Springmaid, Ultrasuede, Kate Spade and NASCAR--produce annual revenues of $3 billion. Springs is proof positive that U.S. textile manufacturing is very much alive. But it would be a stretch to say it's well. According...
Marie came in and announced that she had baked a German apple-pie cake this morning, and it tasted good enough to publish the recipe. She remembered that her first recipe, in 1964, was a guide to making your own bath salts. Since then, she fretted, she has used up all the recipes she can create as well as plagiarize. Nonetheless, she said, "I would hate to give this newspaper up. I had a birthday Saturday. I was 79. I've had two open-heart surgeries. I'm not about to stop doing anything I like...