Word: loft
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...celebrities is that they always have such high-class problems, right? The Rolls gets a flat, the maid gets a book deal. Not so, actually. Saturday Night Live comedian MAYA RUDOLPH and her movie-director boyfriend Paul Thomas Anderson recently fled their $13,500-a-month New York City loft--with their infant--because of bugs. Not the spy kind, the bite-you-in-your-bed kind. All together now: eeeeeew. Also, the elevator didn't work. Naturally, they're suing. And the bugs are looking for a book deal...
...like a guy who had popped a bottle of pain pills, passed out and had his stomach pumped. At a press conference Wednesday at the team's Valley Ranch training camp, Owens admitted he was a bit vague about details of what happened Tuesday night at his downtown Dallas loft, but cut off talk about his mental state. "There was no suicide attempt," he said, a thin smile showing. "The rumor of me taking 35 pills is absurd...
...Owens, for his part, admits he doesn't remember too much of what happened. He was at his loft apartment around 5 p.m. Tuesday, took some pain pills - 2 or 3 is all he remembers - then had therapy. Last he remembers, he was on the table. He doesn't remember his therapist leaving. It's all "very vague," he says. Owens' longtime spokeswoman, Kim Etheredge, was concerned enough to call the paramedics. All she knew was that Owens' bottle of pain pills - reportedly generic vicodin - was empty; he says he had sorted out the pills and put the extra...
...seating, privacy remains a top demand among employees. A Knoll study found that 45% say they do their best work in "their own personal space." The top privacy-related gripe: overheard conversation, particularly from cell-phone shouters. So architects are being exhorted to help muffle cubicle babble. Some advocate loft ceilings, others white noise; a desktop gadget called Babble can broadcast garbled recordings of the user's voice to mask real conversation. "To be honest, I see a lot more people just wearing iPods at their desks," says Dennis Gaffney, co-director of workplace design for architects RTKL...
...neighborhood known as Jack London Square, a district of noodle factories and produce warehouses on Oakland Inner Harbor, is giving way to dozens of new loft-apartment and condo buildings. That explosion in private investment--although limited to only a few pockets of the city--is the centerpiece of Brown's tenure as mayor, the fulfillment of a promise he made eight years ago to bring 10,000 residents to downtown Oakland. Brown points to building after building, each financed with private capital, opening their doors to tenants or just completing construction. "That is new. That is new. That...