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...course, catering to FORTUNE 500 CEOs, heads of state, Hollywood hot shots and jet-setters who frequent the property--where the median room rate is $495 a night and $1,800 a night for suites--is part of the job. But these days, Lopes and his counterparts around the globe say, survival in the lucrative but competitive luxury travel industry means going to extraordinary lengths to indulge guests. During the Hotel Bel-Air's renovation 18 months ago, Lopes redecorated 16 suites according to the tastes of their most frequent occupants. As a result, the bungalow used by a certain...
...helped demonstrate that a future moon trip was possible. With his career cut short because of what he called "a lot of in-house politics," he retired from the Air Force in 1970 and became president of a company that tested and raced cars and pioneered the installation of jet engines. Once asked who the best fighter pilot was, he answered, "you're looking...
...they deserve. At less than 33 minutes long, the CD might just be too short to contain all the rock. Characterized by driving distorted guitar riffs, howling vocals and the old-school background subtleties of the electric organ, the Features cast themselves into the ranks of the Strokes and Jet. Highlights include the disc’s fourth track, “Blow Out,” that opens with a Weezer-esque upbeat chord progression beneath a few bars of catchy background vocals. Its elated chorus, “If you’re happy and you know...
...invitation only. If you know the right people, an e-mail arrives saying "Welcome to a SmallWorld," and you're ushered into a rarefied club with 21,000 members?including supermodel Naomi Campbell, mysterious New York City financier Jeffrey Epstein and a chunk of European aristocracy?who swap jet-set travel tips and chat online. The site was founded in March of this year by Erik Wachtmeister, 49, the son of a former Swedish ambassador to the U.S., who dreams of creating the world's "leading global social-networking community...
...case of Davin Gros. Davin is a rangy, sweet, brilliant kid who lives with his mom, stepdad and three siblings on a remote stretch of Iowa cornfields outside Thornburg (pop. 91). Davin, who turns 15 this week, has blindingly blue eyes and blondish-brown hair that he colors jet black. The day we met was a Thursday, but Davin was at home. After a long struggle with the school system, his mom Laura Knipfer now home schools...