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...Black Chinook...
...Post broke the scandal about the miserable conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the outdated, Kafkaesque bureaucracy facing wounded soldiers just to get medical attention and benefits. Gates fired the Army's secretary and surgeon general and the hospital commander. The special-ops community nicknamed him the Black Chinook - lands at night, takes care of business and gets...
...pastel-colored Thor restaurant in New York City's Rivington hotel, for instance, was Wanders' first significant Stateside commission back in 2004. Last year, Wanders' work was unveiled at Miami's Mondrian hotel - his first major top-to-bottom hotel project, complete with an instantly iconic black lacquer staircase at the reception. "Next we have new hotels in Amsterdam and Hong Kong and an office building in Cairo," Wanders enthuses. "Along with product- and lighting-design projects in Italy." Dealing in daydreams requires a lot of hard work, it seems. See philamuseum.org for more...
...affair, hot-pot gets the upscale treatment at branches of this swish chain (also called Ding Ding Xiang). The mixed-vegetable platter and the sampler dish of Inner Mongolian lamb will give you plenty of things to simmer, and go well with either the mushroom broth or the herbal black-chicken soup. The latter features medicinal ingredients like goji berries and red dates for extra goodness. Get a side order of the restaurant's award-winning sesame crispbread, and wash it all down with a jug of cold soybean milk. Dinner for two runs to about $35. The Shin Kong...
...antique fairs around the world to turn them into mini-museums, incorporating items like a 1930s Mies van der Rohe sofa bed, a rare Picasso foulard and green steel furniture by Italian designer Tobia Scarpa. The glamorous Crystal Room seems weightless with its transparent Fendi Perspex furniture. The black-and-white Karl Suite, decorated with 1920s Viennese armchairs, honors designer Karl Lagerfeld (Fendi's creative director) and displays dozens of his fashion sketches. (See the best travel gadgets...