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...roving bandits common at the time - they built spectacular Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder blockhouses known as diaolou. At their bases, diaolou look like fortifications, with thick walls and turrets. But the upper floors are decorative pastiches of foreign styles, from Greek porticos to Islamic domes, meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asset Building | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

Both those results can be explained in part by self-interest. But De Waal has also observed behavior that can be seen only as empathetic. When a male loses a fight and sits on the floor screaming, the other chimps will comfort it. "They come over to these distressed individuals and embrace them and kiss them and groom them, and try to calm them down," De Waal says. True, there's an implied benefit for the comforters--the hope that others will do the same for them if they end up in that situation--but that's a level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honor Among Beasts | 7/14/2005 | See Source »

...Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Add another stunner to Sir Richard Branson's growing portfolio of former hideaways turned luxury hotels. The latest is the Kasbah Tamadot (virgin.com/kasbah), an 18-room property 50 minutes south of Marrakech, in the foothills of Morocco's High Atlas mountains. Branson, who bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virgin Territory | 7/12/2005 | See Source »

Though these electronic umbilical cords are meant to comfort anxious parents, they can backfire. "Now we get phone calls that are like, 'I saw my kid on your website, but he wasn't smiling. Is everything O.K.?'" says Richard Moss, who has run Camp Lenox in Massachusetts for 20 years. That may explain the recent surge in full-family camps, where kids and parents go hiking and sit around the campfire together. The number of these programs registered with the American Camp Association has jumped, from 192 in 1991 to 552 today. Pass the s'mores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Tabs on Campers | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

...perfect Plathian line between the everyday - making macaroni and cheese, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder getting pulled over for speeding - and the eternal, the plainspoken and the lyrical, the comfortable and the abyss of loss that lies just beneath it: "All morning I try to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Books Of Poetry Worth Curling Up With | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

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