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Everybody has a story about discovering design and the enormous impact it can have on one's life???whether it's the grand gesture of an architectural masterpiece in an urban landscape, like Herzog & de Meuron's new National Stadium in Beijing, or the daily pleasure rendered by a more pedestrian product, like Harry Allen's new first-aid kit for Johnson & Johnson. My first experience with great design dates back to the early 1970s when my parents would buy stuff at a store called Design Research on Manhattan's 57th Street. What I remember most is the Marimekko fabrics...
...honor heroes?in sports as in life???for grace and guts as well as natural gifts. When something comes easily, it's easy not to work at it, like the bright kid who coasts through class: talent taps persistence on the shoulder, says, You're not needed here. But put the two together, Tiger Woods' easy power and ferocious discipline?and he makes history. There's some sweet irony in the fact that before Pistorius came along, there was no need for the rules that now ban him. Only when the disabled runner challenged the able-bodied ones did officials...
...through each day's treadmill tour of statues and museums dedicated to Dear Leaders past and present. But their real job was to keep an eye on us and to control the images we would take back home. For example, when we passed any sort of poverty still life???women washing dishes in the gutter, an old dirty truck piled high with cabbage?they either ordered us to put our cameras down or deleted our pictures after the fact. The guides also had an unsettling habit of taking pictures of us at every tour stop, for reasons they never quite...
Aside from offering a way to live a less encumbered life???free of additional mortgages, maintenance headaches, endless repair costs and cluttered closets?leasing is becoming an ideal way to stay on top of trends and styles, particularly when it comes to cars, fashion and sports equipment. At Aspen's Snowmass resort, for example, 60% of visitors during the past holiday season rented skis from the facility's ski shop, up from 45% eight years ago. Most of these skiers, says Derek Johnson, managing director of rental retail, now invest in custom boots and bindings but prefer to lease their...
...happiest days of my life??was the day my son was accepted to Harvard. For the granddaughter of immigrants, this was like winning the lottery. And my son wasn't the only one to benefit. I sat in on classes and was invited to a dinner at which I found myself seated with the President of Costa Rica and a former Senator from Colorado. When my son went to Harvard, I went too. Anyone who is accepted by any first-tier university should think very, very carefully before turning it down. LINDA MELE JOHNSON Long Beach, Calif...