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...container construction is getting even bigger. In the west London suburb of Uxbridge, a 120-room Travelodge hotel is being built out of 87 steel crates, stacked and snapped together Lego-like, into two nine-story towers. When construction is finished in March (the hotel opens in June), its radical construction technology will be hidden behind a more orthodox brick and concrete exterior...
...wider than standard cargo containers, are pre-fitted with bathrooms, wiring and plasterboard walls, so they require only a minimum of finishing work; the technique is proving to be 25% faster and 10% cheaper than traditional construction methods. But Verbus says the savings could be much bigger. The Uxbridge hotel wasn't originally designed for modular construction. Had it been, construction time could have been halved and costs chopped by as much as 40%. "The economics are compelling," says Verbus company director Paul Rollett. "This is a step change in how to do these things." Travelodge certainly thinks...
...Aswany acknowledges a literary debt to Mahfouz, in more ways than one. During a crisis of confidence in his 20s, he ran into Mahfouz at a hotel in Alexandria and received a three-hour pep talk from the master. Rejecting the Arab vogue for postmodernism, Al Aswany has stayed true to the Mahfouz tradition of social realism. And like Mahfouz, he has a gift for writing literary page turners that are endlessly discussed by café intellectuals while also being accessible to Egyptians who normally have more time for Al-Ahly, their favorite football team. "He is read everywhere," says...
Indicted identity thief and pseudo-Harvard alumna Esther E. Reed had her post-graduate endeavours cut short this weekend when local police officers arrested the fugitive at a hotel in Tinley Park, Ill., according to a Secret Service spokesperson...
...chaos of flying bodies and last-minute audibles. Romney woke up in Nashville Monday, had lunch in Atlanta, refueled in Oklahoma, and then spoke at dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed nemesis, John McCain, toured Romney's backyard in Boston, before heading on to New York, New Jersey, then to California and, finally, Arizona. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, had retreated to an evangelical southern strategy...