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Pillowy Pad Soft as your sleeping bag may be, truly cushy camping calls for an extra layer of cushion underneath to support your back. The Therm-a-Rest Women's Trail Comfort mattress, $70, is designed specifically for those whose feet get cold at night: it has extra insulation at the lower...
...LIVINGSTONES Inspired by her native Nice's shingle beach, French designer St?phanie Marin's line of giant pebble "poufs"?which come in varying sizes?add a surrealist touch to interiors. Covered in soft new wool and dyed natural rock colors, they come in free-form cushion and couch shapes. Buy one, or to get the full-fledged outdoorsy effect, a whole roomful. smarin.net...
...Nice's shingle beach, French designer Stéphanie Marin's line of giant pebble "poufs" - which come in varying sizes - add a surrealist touch to interiors. Covered in soft[an error occurred while processing this directive] new wool and dyed natural rock colors, they come in free-form cushion and couch shapes. Buy one, or to get the full-fledged outdoorsy effect, a whole roomful. smarin.net...
...knock them off, even if they start making some progress. For the most part they don't have anything to fall back on, so if a child gets sick, they don't have health care coverage. If they run into a financial problem, they don't have any cushion. The result is they're right back in the ditch. You can't live on $6, $7 or $8 an hour and have anything to fall back on. Or save anything. Most folks who live on those kind of wages don't have bank accounts or credit cards, which makes them...
...Spain's rate of home ownership is 85%, far and away the highest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (o.e.c.d.). Because of the high level of mortgage debt, Jamie Caruana, governor of the Bank of Spain, warned last year that by the end of 2004, "The cushion of saving available ... had fallen to practically zero for Spanish households." Ricardo Vergés, an economist who earlier this year completed the first accounting report on housing for the National Institute of Statistics, is spooked by what he found. "We have €7.4 billion in mortgages. If you divide that...