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...success. Artz said he sees the Mather victory becoming a trend. “This is the first year that Mather has taken the contest seriously, and we have future projects planned,” he said. Artz described the planned conversion of toilets from single- to dual-flush toilets so that users will have the option of flushing liquid waste with half the amount of water as that for solid waste. “I think this will be lasting change for years to come,” Artz said. —Staff writer Matthew S. Blumenthal...
...times will be a video camera monitoring his every move. If he is well behaved, he could eventually be allowed to have a black-and-white television in his cell that plays, on closed circuit, religious programs, psychological help tapes or educational shows. His toilet can flush only a certain number of times an hour so he can't flood his room to get the guard's attention. For the same reason, his shower will run only for a short period of time...
WHAT'S NEW Miami, for starters. Style-conscious director Michael Mann, who executive-produced Vice for TV, took the original show's atmospherics from a provincial Miami that hid its grit under pink stucco. Now it's a boomtown, flush with international cash and bristling with glassy towers. The crime scene in '80s Miami, Mann says, "was just small-town cocaine cowboys. Now, everything seems to have a couple of zeroes added to the end of it." Gone too are the signature pastels. As for the substance, the director insisted on an R rating, allowing the movie to show...
Before taking a bullet in the first episodeof this season of The Sopranos, mob boss Tony Soprano was at the top of his game: secure in his business, flush with income, gorging on expensive sushi. When it comes to the TV-crime business, Tony has largely been the unchallenged boss too. Television has occasionally featured wrongfully accused men (The Fugitive) or misunderstood rogues (The Dukes of Hazzard), but TV has mainly been a good guys' zone. Now there are people gunning for Tony in the TV biz as well; the medium is in the middle of a full-blown...
HSBC is more than just a bank. Sure, it's flush with $1.5 trillion in assets, and its canny deposits scooped up pre-tax profits of $21 billion last year. But it's also got a worldwide staff of 250,000, many of whom spend much of their time in the air shuttling among HSBC's 10,000 offices. And that makes the London-based megabank both a global building manager and a major travel company...