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Healthy disks are like a car's shock absorbers. A soft, gel-like substance in their center, or nucleus, helps cushion the jolts caused by simple movements like running and jumping. But for various reasons, a disk's hard, protective shell can degenerate, allowing the spongy interior to bulge out and press on spinal nerves. This can cause excruciating pain that radiates down the leg in a condition commonly called sciatica...
...underwrite the cost of her reconstructive surgery. The next challenge was to procure a national ID card for Fakhra so she would be eligible for a passport to travel to Italy for the operation. A technicality held up the process until Durrani marched into the office of Pakistan's Interior Minister, retired Lieut. General Moinuddin Haider, known as a progressive and no-nonsense official. The minister's response, Durrani says, was that publicizing Fakhra's case abroad would sully Pakistan's reputation. (Haider's office says the minister "assured his cooperation for her [Fakhra's] Fakhra's] departure abroad.") Durrani...
...Among the better-known of Fritz Hansen's designers was Arne Jacobsen. While building the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen in 1956, he had a hard time finding suitable furniture for the project. So he designed the Egg and Swan chairs. Both use artificial foam for the interior and, most dramatically, neither chair has a single straight line. More than 40 years old, the chairs are so outlandish that they still find their way into rock videos and onto fashion magazine covers. Jacobsen, who died in 1971, also designed his own cafeteria-style chair, called the Series 7, which...
...Miami interior decorator Nury Feria, the mother of two teenagers, launched her own little crusade within her job as a designer of children's bedrooms. She was finding herself creating rooms that were more like separate apartments. "Large-screen TVs, computers with individual Internet access, refrigerators, sound systems, video-game centers, leather sofas--the only thing missing was a pool," she says. "I realized that as the designer, I'm also supposed to help shape the lifestyle of the kids, and I didn't like a lot of what I was doing in that regard." So she began subtly trying...
Just east of the Sanlitun area, the ever-expanding Loft, a spot popular with chuppies, is a study in mixed metaphors. Its TV-lined industrial interior sports metal-tube chairs inspired by traditional Chinese designs, and a sizable dance floor. Go through the small art gallery to reach a tented beer garden where a lone cellist plays on a balcony, occasionally obscured by smoke from the barbecue. A couple of caveats: some regulars complain the sound system needs an overhaul, and the crowds tend to move on by midnight. But if beer and kebabs are your thing, call...