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...Boutique hotels often over-compensate for their lack of size - and rebel against the cookie-cutter monotony of chain hotels - by going overboard on design. But Naumi, Singapore's latest boutique hotel, thankfully emphasizes the fundamentals - and very decent they are too. Located in the city center, just across from the Raffles Hotel, Naumi provides 40 good-sized rooms kitted out with quality amenities (think Aesop toiletries and organic teas), as well as stylish technology (wi-fi, portable IP-enabled phones and an iPod dock...
...American shoppers will be able to buy the result of Osborn's ruminations from this Christmas: Elephant Pepper hot sauces, retailing at $3.99 from the Whole Foods Market chain. It's the culmination of a long travail. When Osborn founded the Elephant Pepper Development Trust in 1999, his main aim was to help farmers deter elephants. He initially went high-tech, consulting Israeli pepper spray manufacturers about designing an aerosol pepper grenade. It worked, but to catch on with subsistence farmers, Osborn had to find a cheaper solution. Hence his invention of the chili fence - a rope hung with rags...
...free market could not provide. The Market’s impending opening is the result of a directive to HRES from former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was apparently concerned that such a business would not break into an environment in which, seemingly, attracts only banks and national chains. For the last year and half, HRES has leased the vacant space at the corner of Brattle and Church streets at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars until they could find a grocer to occupy it. This sort of “surgical intervention” as James...
Gates scolded the Army last month for promotion policies that too often are "unchanged since the cold war" and combat-training that "left the service unprepared" for Iraq. Rebuilding the service requires "visionary leadership across the service," he said, "and up and down the chain of command." Or maybe it just requires the ability to peer into the past: Petraeus is simply helping a new generation of soldiers learn the lessons in unconventional warfare the Army abandoned following its inglorious exit from Vietnam...
When the military told him in 1953 that it would discharge him if he did not renounce his father--who was suspected of being a communist because he read a Serbian newspaper--Air Force Lieut. Milo Radulovich said no and appealed. ("I could see a chain reaction," he said.) Radulovich, who later became a meteorologist, was made famous by Edward R. Murrow on CBS's See It Now (and in the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck); weeks after the broadcast the Air Force reversed its position. Radulovich...