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...tribes scattered across the country. In recent times, improved roads and increased security have made it easier for intrepid traders to bring these rich prizes of Afghan culture to less remote markets - their warm hues and intricate tribal patterns are showing up in carpet showrooms from Sydney to San Francisco. Unfortunately, clever imitations are turning up, too. So how does a novice buyer spot the fakes? We asked two experts - third-generation carpet trader Abdul Tawab and his father, Hajji Sufi Abdul Wahid - for advice. The pair hail from Herat, the center of Afghanistan's carpet business, but moved...
...Capitol police incident, lamenting that his mother would have told him, "When they were passing out moderation, you were hiding behind the door." The son of a plumber, Thomas grew up in Orange County, Calif. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from San Francisco State University and then taught the subject at a Bakersfield, Calif., community college. In 1978 he won a congressional seat from Bakersfield and, on arriving in Washington, roomed with another college professor who had decided to enter politics, Newt Gingrich. Like Gingrich, he ached to be a House leader. After Republicans...
DIED. SPENCER DRYDEN, 66, drummer for the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane during the band's 1960s heyday; of cancer; at his home in Petaluma, Calif. The onetime jazz drummer provided the beat for such hits as White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, but his frequent grumbling and his affair with the group's singer Grace Slick--he regularly threatened to quit the band with Slick in tow--caused tensions, and he left in 1970. He went on to play in other bands, including New Riders of the Purple Sage, before retiring...
...Bliss Spa celebrates its partnership with the W Hotel chain with a new location, bliss49, in New York City's W Hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue. It opened last month, and three more spas are set to open in 2005 in W Hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. The New York spa, which features a manicure-pedicure lounge, a shaving station, and women's and men's locker rooms with saunas and aromatherapy-infused steam rooms, will also offer unique treatments like Bliss's Carrot & Sesame Body Buff and Triple Oxygen facial. But the biggest bonus...
...right? This is an experiment we can all do for ourselves. There's little risk in trying some extra gratitude and kindness, and the results--should they materialize--are their own reward. --With reporting by Elizabeth Coady/ Champaign-Urbana, Dan Cray/ San Francisco, Alice Park/New York and Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles...