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Underlying the problems is the very freedom from regulation that makes assisted living so attractive. This has allowed operators to cater to the aesthetic desires of their customers--to sport plush carpeting where nursing homes have only linoleum--and still keep costs down. The average nursing home, funded largely by Medicaid, costs nearly $4,000 a month. The average assisted-living facility, where residents typically pay out of their own pocket, costs about $1,800 a month. Disparities in regulation, though, leave seniors vulnerable to huge variations in everything from the quality of food to the number of registered nurses...
Thin, dull yellow, wooden benches line the stuffy waiting room. Barred windows send blocks of light onto a once white linoleum floor. Although this is a hospital, it smells of neither sterilization fluid nor menthol rub, but of human sweat. Along a dim hallway, young women in all stages of pregnancy wait on more paint-chipped benches. A metal examination table, stirrups down and unused, lies to one side. There is no central air-conditioning...
...fraught with danger: most refugees lack papers and don't speak Chinese. In Yanji on a recent night, a group of eight refugees were preparing to make a run for it anyway. In a safe house on the top floor of a concrete apartment building, they huddled on the linoleum floor, pouring over a map of Mongolia while a missionary went over the route they would take, explaining where to make the crossing under the concertina wire at the frontier, urging them to keep walking until they are able to surrender to Mongolian border troops. The missionary is tense, jumpy...
...reasons: one, the rugs look hot, and two, we know prospective partners can't resist the erotic pull and sensuous feel of genuine bear. Alas, the rugs may have worked a little too well, leaving our premises too funky after bacchanalian nights spent on the skin. Now LINOLEUM RUGS offer a wipeable alternative that is as aesthetically pleasing and frankly sexual as its endangered counterpart. Created by L.A. painter Christopher Stearns, the linoleum rugs come in a variety of grid, dot and zigzag patterns. Jack Nicholson and Phil Collins have had intricate hand-cut floors inlaid. Perhaps, like us, they...
With Eames chairs and bark-cloth drapes coming back into vogue, it was only a matter of time before linoleum floors joined the retro-design boom. MTV's offices in Santa Monica, Calif., are covered with the stuff, while Jack Nicholson, Ted Danson and Phil Collins have all had intricate hand-cut floors inlaid at their homes by Hollywood designer Laurie Crogan. The tacky old sheeting product has also been refashioned into modern "linoleum rugs." They were born in L.A. a few years back, when abstract painter Christopher Stearns decided to cover up his apartment's ugly kitchen with portable...