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...Wherever we went, the Mobile press followed. Every morning I read articles about us over breakfast, and every night I watched footage of our rehearsals and appearances on the news. Then there was all the free new clothes—I lugged 14 t-shirts, five pairs of shoes, custom tailored jeans, three tops and an exercise outfit back home...
Hitler, by some reports, spent the week before the invasion confined to the Reich Chancellery, the opulent quarter-mile edifice he had built to symbolize Germany's might. During that time, he subsisted on a spartan diet of vegetables, buttered bread and his custom-brewed 1%-alcohol beer. He slept little, usually going to bed at sunrise...
...yourself: everything from bags to bikinis comes with your initial on it. The specialty shop Eye of the Needle, with stores in Palm Beach, Fla., Boston and Nantucket, Mass., is stocked with initialed sweaters, swimsuits, thongs, handbags, belts and wallets. After Eye's owner, Karen Golov, saw Barney's custom-label cashmere letter sweaters two years ago, she says she "focused on everything I could find that had initials." Mass-producing customized goods isn't easy. Stephanie Hirsch, owner and designer of Inca, which makes initialed caps, visors and swimwear, says her best sellers...
...music. Once downloaded from your CDs, music is sent to as many as seven small receivers, or clients. Five can be wireless, and each can power a pair of wired speakers. MusicCast can simultaneously transmit different music to, say, the kitchen, den and two bedrooms. You can also compile custom CDs from the server to play elsewhere. This family jukebox isn't cheap: list price for the server and one client will be $2,800; additional clients, $600 each...
Although Power said that the report was not custom-tailored to any specific political group, she said that the report directly addresses questions of Harvard’s and MIT’s economic impact on Cambridge—something the city council has examined in the past...