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...Maya Frommer ’07’s coordinated bedroom takes a page from Urban Outfitters. She padded her mattress with a feather bedcover and vibrant pink and orange sheets. A canopy of sheets and lantern lights partitions her bed from her common room, perfect for privacy. Her pride and joy, though, is the headboard, which she constructed by wrapping fabric and cardboard around the bed’s metal frame...
While the deficiencies in medical care at Abu Ghraib have gone largely unreported, the glare of the prison-guard scandal has compelled the U.S. military to launch major reforms. In the past year, the military says it has established a 52-bed hospital at the prison, staffed by 200 highly trained medical personnel. The number of detainees in U.S. custody is currently about 3,000. (The interim Iraqi government also houses prisoners there.) No date has been set, but the military would like to close the facility altogether, officially to avoid more insurgent attacks but, what's more, to wipe...
...early-warning system in the Indian Ocean that would alert people before a possible tsunami. In the aftermath of this disaster, philanthropists are demanding a better deal for the world's poor. There is more than enough money in the world to make sure no child goes to bed hungry. We have the resources to do that. We should not waste our money on weapons and wars. This generation could go down in history as the one that beat global poverty. Henry Pool Silverton, South Africa...
...have a first-class college degree, lots of internships and job experience on my résumé, but at 23 I am back home with my parents, living rent free. I'm sleeping in my old bed with my favorite stuffed animal. I spend my days running errands, doing laundry and making dinner. I have become my parents' "desperate housewife." Young adults my age are overwhelmed by indecision. We have the necessary tools, but we have too many options and not enough options at the same time. We are stuck...
...full-fledged pillow fight is under way in the hotel industry, with one chain after another firing shots to claim the title for the industry's most comfortable bed. The latest challenger: Marriott International, which announced last month that it was spending $190 million to replace 628,000 beds in 2,400 hotels with plusher mattresses and 300-thread-count sheets. "It's the biggest makeover in the history of the industry," says J.W. Marriott Jr., chairman and CEO, who (with his sons, below) donned flannel jammies for the announcement. The mattress war began five years ago, when Westin launched...