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That house does have street-side windows. At street level there's one line of reflective-glass squares set flush with the wall surface. Another line at the second story is deeply recessed to emphasize the thickness of the walls. All the same, the first impression is of a place that's dark and impregnable. But as with the Elektra house, there's a surprise inside: the interiors are so filled with light that you could read a sundial in any of the rooms. To cross the threshold from the mildly forbidding exterior to the glowing entry hall is like...
...Neorest, left, a combination bidet-toilet that may very well be smarter than you are first thing in the morning. It knows when you're ready to use it (the lid lifts as you approach) and when you're done (the lid closes, and the toilet flushes). It even knows what has gone on in between: for liquid-only waste, Neorest uses 1.2 gal. of water to flush and for other episodes, 1.6 gal. The conservation-minded toilet also includes a heated seat, an air deodorizer and a warm-air dryer, among other features...
...million people aged 75 and over do not receive anything like the care of the Sainte-Agnès residents. Often, in fact, they are ignored or forgotten, left to fend for themselves or die alone. It's a national reckoning that is not coming easily. The immediate flush of media attention last week centered on the sexier political debate over the slow and initially dismissive reaction by the conservative government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, much of which was on holiday as the death toll mounted. Raffarin has refused to accept any blame, while President Jacques Chirac...
Raids like this, designed to flush out Saddam and his top aides, happen every few days. On one level, they have been successful. In their recent operations around Tikrit, U.S. soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade--known as the Raiders--have enjoyed several big scores: they helped special forces nab Saddam's trusted aide Abid Hamid Mahmud, seized more than a ton of plastic explosives and hundreds of weapons and uncovered at a farm more than $9 million in cash plus a buried chest of jewels worth more than $1 million that belonged to Saddam's first...
...flush with space in its new building, HMS plans to expand its faculty from 100 to 115 members, said HMS Associate Dean of Finance Cynthia Walker...