Word: genderism
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...pared-down combination of bleached wood and concrete. Designed by architects Guiliana Salmaso and Goetz Maximilian Keller, each of the rooms comes with an unusually well-appointed kitchenette, including such flourishes as champagne flutes and Asian-accented porcelain. Living areas come stocked with seductive Linari room fragrances, gender-specific toiletries by La Bottega, flat-screen TVs, DVD players and DSL high-speed Internet access. The hotel also boasts an Aveda beauty salon, a "wellness center" and a restaurant-bar serving Italian-Asian fusion cuisine. Says Tänzer of the $14.6 million investment: "It's a declaration that the neighborhood...
...while also. Then I decided to do something about it. For instance, I'm very pro-choice and will show up and speak and do whatever I can to support that. It's no longer, Will you get into medical school if you're a woman? But gender is still the issue...
Miller is far from alone. Baby boomers who for one reason or another retire early are increasingly starting reverse-gender businesses. The phenomenon is growing at a rate of about 20% a year, estimates John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based international outplacement firm. The boomers, often disenchanted with corporate America, are spurred by a desire to control their own destiny. In striking out on their own, they feel a powerful sense of liberation and of not giving a rip what others think--two emotions that tend to accompany aging, observes Debra Mandel...
...opportunity," says Mary Tuff, who lives in the 37th Ward. "They say that all our young people do is just hang on the corner, but it's not true, and now we have a chance to show them." Arguments about the supposed low wages, expensive health plans and gender discrimination are almost beside the point in the 37th Ward. "If it's good enough for the suburbs, why isn't it good enough for the city?" asks alderwoman Mitts. "Why isn't it good enough for us?" --With reporting by Bill Saporito/Bentonville
Anatole Doultry--known by the gender-bending nickname Annie--looks and acts a lot like the middle-age Marlon Brando. He is overweight and has a broken nose, a gift for mimicry and a taste for life in the Pacific Rim's more exotic climes. But his most important resemblance to the actor is in that "the layers of his deceptions were like the layers of an onion's skin...