Word: baths
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...summer in Hong Kong, and that means steam-bath humidity, threatening typhoons?and labor problems at Cathay Pacific, the territory's only major airline. This year the labor row has turned into a dogfight between the company and its 1,600 pilots, and neither side has yet scored a kill. Travelers around Asia have already been inconvenienced by the labor dispute, and both sides?but mainly management?have been increasing the acrimony as steadily as the Hong Kong temperature has been rising...
...that is exactly what happened one ill-fated afternoon last February. Inspectors had found a thick black mold growing between the stucco and the drywall of the master bedroom, bath, study and dining room. After some of it was identified as stachybotrys atra--a fungus that has been linked to everything from sinus infections to brain damage--an industrial hygienist warned the Ilers to evacuate. Thirty minutes later, they abandoned their home forever. "I thought, This can't be happening to me," says Sharyn. "This is my sanctuary. This is where I come when everything else is wrong...
...Felipe Association of Retired Persons, the talk is about how Beverly Stillwell, 71, is paying only $1,700 for bridgework "that would easily cost $4,000 in the States." How Nellie Kidwell, 84, forks over only $49 a year in property taxes for her two-bedroom, two-bath home near the beach. And how Rose Lahey's timid boyfriend won't drive down from California because "he's paranoid about Mexican bandidos." Says Lahey, 55, a retired letter carrier: "You're safer here than in L.A. any day--and it's better than going postal...
...sports' traditional Gatorade bath in reverse...
...appliances and equipment in the house do not only talk to "Wildfire" and the panels on the door. They also obey commands from your phone and handheld computer. So you can be driving home from work and tell your phone to turn the bath...