Word: crashes
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...Friday, up from 430 orders during the peak minute a year ago. "It was about 20% higher orders per minute than it was last year,' says Dias. However, she speculates it's possible orders will drop off on Saturday and Sunday if shoppers were only seeking time-limited door-crash specials...
...rooms, which range in size from tiny 157 sq. ft. (14 sq m) Crash Pads to a sprawling rooftop suite complete with garden, are individually designed. Some offer a diva-pleasing vision of soft pinks and four posters; the boys will opt for rooms where use of strong mauves and browns lends a more masculine feel. In a stylish touch, key cards have been dispensed with and replaced with solid, old-school keys, which give an exclusive hotel-as-home air. (See 10 things to do in London...
...endured not one but two market crashes - one at each end of the decade. You might recall the first Wall Street crash, when swooning tech stocks tanked the market from 2000 to 2001, not long after the Nasdaq hit an all-time high of 5049 on March 10, 2000. (Recent levels: 2150-2200.) The economy went into a recession that now seems laughably mild. What followed wasn't funny at all: the most divisive and confusing presidential election in history, a discombobulated drama that we once thought could occur only in the Third World...
...Will Camus make it there? Though Jean Camus has rejected Sarkozy's request to move the writer's ashes from the Luberon region, where he was buried following his death in a car crash in 1960, his twin sister Catherine, who has managed her father's estate, is divided on the issue. Catherine appears to be less politicized in her thinking and has said that her father's place in the Panthéon could "be a symbol for those for whom life is very hard" - a reference to Albert Camus' underprivileged youth in colonial Algeria. (See pictures of Paris...
...pictures from the crash...