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...wants to be famous has to be fundamentally messed up. To crave attention, adulation, adoration from the whole wide world means that you aren’t content being happy in your own little corner of the world; a white picket fence, SUV and IKEA furniture in a suburban loft just don’t cut it unless your presence is known, unless you’re a star. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Life wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining if we didn’t have J.Lo...
Perhaps appropriately, the rockets from the formerly classless society will loft decidedly proletariat payloads. O.S.S.S. hopes to mass manufacture satellites known as CubeSats, boxes measuring 4 in. a side that can be bought and launched for less than $45,000. Up to 100 CubeSats could go aloft on one SS-18 and be used for anything from experimental sensors for university science students to Internet relay stations to resting places for the ashes of a loved...
After three years in an "incredibly groovy" Manhattan loft, the top brass at VIA, a marketing and strategic-design agency, also found they had to provide more separation. "The designers want music," explains Donna Torrance, general manager of the New York City office, "the writers want silence, and the account people are on the phone all day." Her solution? She is moving the departments far from one another and isolating the writers in a room with a door. But it's a 100-in.-wide swinging barn door, she notes. "When it's not shut, the opening is half...
...Weirdharolds.com) At Valley and Third, the Hotel Burlington reopened as a senior-housing complex this year after sitting vacant for 20 years. And Schramm's department store, which closed five years ago after 150 years of operation, is reopening piece by piece, as a restaurant, small shops and loft apartments...
...facade and found carved wooden columns and stained-glass windows beneath. Several townsfolk heard the news and strolled over to celebrate the discovery of the buried treasure. Later in the day, there was a buzz at the Ivy Bake Shoppe, and upstairs, in Martha Wolf's sprawling Early American loft, the view of the Mississippi, which widens to nearly a mile beneath the old swing-span bridge, was stunning...