Word: magnetized
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...there are Americans walking around there right now. It's not that the war generated terror, it just provided an easier target. All these other people who normally would not have had the opportunity to strike out against American targets now have them close by. Iraq has become a magnet. But these are people with divergent opinions about the world. There are staunch secularists and nationalists together with vehement Muslim fundamentalists. It would not surprise me if these people ended up fighting one another, which we have seen already. This terrorism is not just against Americans, it's a statement...
...turnoff, no need to leave the neighborhood: Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson--of The Park restaurant--have opened the porthole-punctuated Maritime Hotel on Ninth Avenue at 16th Street. With its 10,000-sq.-ft. outdoor public garden and '60s-style Pop Art decor, this place is already a magnet for Victoria's Secret models and Marc Jacobs acolytes. Up next: the 187-room Hotel Gansevoort, across the street from Soho House, with a rooftop pool, loftlike rooms and two restaurants. The meat-packing district used to be strictly for cows and transvestites. There goes the neighborhood. --By Rebecca Isenberg
...very success of his celebrity houses has made Adjaye sensitive about being tagged a designer to the glam pack. He has also designed an arts center in one of London's poorer neighborhoods, and his upcoming Boston-area magnet school is the focus of some of his most intense enthusiasm--which, for a man with Adjaye's energy, is saying something...
Carbon dioxide traps like the Mosquito Magnet work by emitting a plume of carbon dioxide, heat, moisture and octenol. They do a great job of capturing mosquitoes, but there's a chance they could work too well and attract more mosquitoes than usual to your yard, some of which might bite you on their way to being trapped. --By Lisa McLaughlin
TEMPERATURE Body heat is also a mosquito magnet, which is why heat-absorbing dark clothes put you at greater risk...