Word: carltons
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...from those products developed from the licensed technologies, and the University will also receive an ownership stake in Nano-Terra. Nano-Terra does not receive rights to use the technologies in biomedical products because Whitesides is already working with companies that specialize in the biomedical fields specifically, said Ashley Carlton, a communications representative for Nano-Terra. “[Professor Whitesides] has a proven track record with some of his biomedical companies,” Carlton said. She added that this track record may have helped steer Harvard to further license Whiteside’s lab’s developments...
...addition to serving special groups of travelers, luxury properties are currently experimenting with the concept of butlers. The 375-room Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, in Miami Beach, Fla., offers sun worshippers a one-of-a-kind tanning butler. This employee circulates around the pool deck and beach Thursdays through Sundays during peak tanning hours, offering free sunscreen, cool water misters and eyeglass cleaners...
...that isn't decadent enough, how about dropping $100,000 for an extravagant weekend in Vegas? At the Ritz-Carlton in Henderson, Nev., the Love at Lake Las Vegas weekend package includes two nights in the 2,400-sq.-ft. presidential suite, helicopter and gondola rides, a champagne-tasting dinner on a yacht complete with rose petals strewn about and a string trio, use of a luxury car throughout the stay, in-room couples spa treatment, a $5,000 casino line of credit, a $50,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus, 14 dozen roses and a butler-drawn Cristal champagne...
...droves seeking an audience. And what chance does a premiere by minimalist Taiwan master Hou Hsiao-hsien have when, that same morning, U.S. comedian Jerry Seinfeld is promoting his cartoon feature Bee Movie by dressing in a bee costume and flying, on guy wires, from the top of the Carlton Cannes Hotel across the town's oceanside boulevard to land on a pier jutting into the Mediterranean? "They tell me Scorsese did the same thing last year for The Departed," he quipped...
...mere prelude to the flight-of-the-bumble-bee escapade at Carlton Beach a half-hour later. This could have been Katzenberg's idea; as head of Disney animation in its palmy "Renaissance" years (1988-94), he had hosted ever more elaborate industry previews of his films, culminating in a Las Vegas stunt for The Lion King with a live lion onstage. The beast was so fond of Jeffrey, it nearly behaved toward him as another Vegas lion later did to Siegfried's Roy; but Jeffrey escaped basically unmauled. Now, under his auspices, a zillionaire comic would perform a kind...