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...more than 20 years, suite 1600 at the InterContinental Hong Kong (intercontinental.com) was one of Asia's best-kept secrets. Landscaped terraces, a private solarium and a Jacuzzi with an eye-popping view of the Hong Kong skyline were some of the features that lured guests from movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. They, and anyone else lucky enough to have spent a night there, probably came away with the feeling that the two-bedroom facility was all but unimprovable. Not true. After a $2.5 million makeover, 1600 has reopened as the hotel...
...organization - based in Thumbod, a tiny village of swaying palms an hour outside the state capital of Trivandrum - has infused yarn with organic herbs and plant extracts, and claims that regular contact with cloth made from this material will relieve itches, rashes and other skin disorders. With a sharp eye for the contemporary obsession with Eastern traditional medicine, the weavers have dubbed their cloth ayurvastra - referring to the ayurvedic principles on which production is based. After cleaning, the raw yarn is coated with a natural gum, and it's then soaked in medicinal dyes prepared with pomegranate, turmeric and indigo...
...Even then, students should be aware that their information is never truly private. “The whole point of Facebook is for other people to see it,” says Hughes. And with 12.4 million unique users as of December, there are certainly enough eyes out there.HOW SECURE IS YOUR PORN?In February 1995, The Crimson determined that it was possible to identify Harvard network users who were downloading pornography and to read the names of the files that they transferred. A computer service log file was accidentally made public through the Harvard network. The Crimson, accessing this...
...federal government has no complete record of what properties it owns or what their condition or availability is," declared Coburn, who also held a formal committee hearing on the issue that same day. "We need to be better stewards of the taxpayers' money," said Coburn, just after completing his eye-opening tour on the crumbling building?s third floor...
...moved from Melbourne to Paris burned out by his early success. But in the 10 years since, Grant, 39, has calmly gone about his business, producing two collections a year with little more noise than the sound of his seamstress scissors. Along the way, his exquisite tailoring caught the eye of Vogue tastemaker Andre Leon Talley. In 2003, upscale department store Barneys asked him to design for its private label, and the following year he turned down the top job at couture house C?line, preferring to stay small. Which is how this so-called "quiet man" has come to occupy...