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...bespoke areas: a number of European companies are offering solidly constructed, customized treetop retreats which, for prices from $15,000, may be designed to fit almost any species of tree. While all arboreal dwellings are a treat for the senses - there's the smell of freshly cut timber, the creak of branches and the sound of wind whistling through the leaves - few are as spectacularly luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehouse- company.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating...
...another reality, their irreducible weakness in the great-power ring where America is the last man standing. Strong enough to deny the U.S. a war resolution in the Security Council in March, France and Germany were too puny to stop the war itself. Their fabled "axis" has begun to creak; unlike French President Jacques Chirac, Schröder carefully refrained from pressuring Bush for a speedy handover of authority to the Iraqis. Schröder must have realized that it was not so wise to remain inside Chirac's pocket. The months Schröder spent in there helped radicalize...
...saint." That's a bit much for Hitchens, who prefers to say that Orwell "took some of the supposedly Christian virtues and showed how they could be 'lived' without piety or religious belief." One virtue Orwell did not possess was an ear for good fiction. His early novels creak and groan with messages about the evils of imperialism, capitalism or middle-class respectability. Even Animal Farm and 1984 are memorable more for the power of their ideas than the gracefulness of their prose. Indeed, there are probably dozens of 20th century writers who took on Orwell's causes in that...
...remember an epiphany I had that night when I went into the library,” she says. “There was something in the lights, and the creak of the stairs. And I came around to the view that I really wanted to be an academic after...
Cell phone bills skyrocket with constant updates between family members before class, during class—bathroom break!—and after class. TFs look quizzically at watergun-toting students who rush into the room panting for breath, only to creak open the door slowly, peering nervously outward, after section comes...