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...Worth raising a glass to, right? But all last week's election in Brazil got from Wall Street was a Bronx cheer. The Brazilian currency, the real, continued a slide that, apart from a brief rally after an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue package last August, has gone on all year. In the markets, interest rates on Brazilian bonds (a proxy for the extent to which Wall Street regards investment in Brazil as a risk) are running more than 20 percentage points above comparable U.S. securities...
...room fading, the kitchen has become the family gathering place, and it's being packed with multiple sinks and Department of Defense--priced ovens. The kitchen can't be contained anymore, so it blends into that large live-eat-play space often called a great room, which connects through glass doors to the outside space, now being treated as an integral part of the design. The idea is to allow family togetherness and personal space at the same time, meaning never having to reach a consensus about what to do together...
London-based, Baghdad-born Zaha Hadid has three F words working against her as an architect: she's female, she's a foreigner, and the buildings she designs are fantastical. All of which for many years trapped Hadid beneath architecture's glass ceiling, the big emblematic projects she put in for going to the head boys of the profession. But Hadid, 52, now employs more than 40 architects in her studio in a converted London school, and none has time to doodle: she has projects underway in Germany, Spain, Italy, the United States, Abu Dhabi, Singapore ... Surrounded by young...
...native Chicagoans started a band called the Greased Ferrets. Andy Duncan, after overcoming initial missteps, joined the party in high school, and Kulash met current drummer Dan Konopka while studying at Brown. After officially forming in 1999, OK Go finally broke when Ira Glass, host of the public radio show “This American Life,” requested that the band perform with him on a touring version of the show. Their fan base grew rapidly, and they were eventually signed by Capitol Records. The band recorded an entire disc’s worth of material, but then...
Newly retro in their appearances, Jacobs and Silverman proceeded to the Spring Fling set, where the assistant director paired up men and women, giving each couple a precise location and activity to perform. Silverman’s task—offering to pour his date a glass of punch—was relatively simple, while Jacobs’ required him to smoke several herbal cigarettes from the prop department...