Word: drapes
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...century ago, that's not necessarily a problem. "Our sleeping environments are better than they ever have been," says Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Center at Loughborough University in England. In Victorian workhouses, to give just one example, folks used to sit on benches and drape themselves on long ropes, called hang-overs, to sleep. They must have got used to it, Horne says. Indeed, the sleep system can be very flexible and adapt quickly to different conditions. "It's peace of mind rather than physical comfort that counts anyway," says Horne...
...scheduled to fly to Normandy to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-day invasion. There he will meet French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, the two most persistent critics of the war among U.S. allies. Bush, his aides expect, will hail "the greatest generation," drape that same mantle on those fighting today and assert that the struggle in Iraq is a noble...
...made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This means cheaper sweaters but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their cashmere. They may also be the product of goats with poor genes. Fred Xiaong, co-founder of Autumn Cashmere, whose buttery sweaters typically start at about $300, says the company uses...
...platoon lives in two worlds--one beyond the steel coils that drape the compound, where the soldiers rely on one another to survive, and one "inside the wire," where they struggle to find space of their own. Today, to fill up the downtime between patrols, Beverly surfs the Internet for information on eArmyU, the military's online college program. Beverly describes himself as "the opposite of the typical Army recruit." He loves the soft rock of Sting and devours fantasy novels in his free time. When he joined the Army in 2002, two days after his 18th birthday, he wasn...
...made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This translates into less expensive sweaters, but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their cashmere. They may also be the product of goats with poor genes. Fred Xiaong, co-founder of Autumn Cashmere, whose buttery sweaters typically start at about $300, says...