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...silly humor of Michael Graves' now famous Alessi teakettle, or the nostalgia of a surfboard-shaped Marc Newson aluminum table. Great design is both astonishing and pedestrian. It can be shockingly fashionable and downright useful. These days, design touches almost every part of our lives, thanks to mass-market manufacturers and retailers...
...Monnickendam, a town about 20 minutes outside Amsterdam. That is exactly what makes the interior of Ingeborg Ravestijn Antiques a greater surprise. For within, there's a roaring fire in the grate, stags' heads hung on the walls, a vast dining-room table set with fine silverware and a mass of etched-glass ship's decanters on the handsome sideboard. In the kitchen are stacks of exquisite porcelain and a little gathering of tiny figures, each designed to hold toothpicks. "I only buy what I like to have in my home," says Ravestijn, of her house where everything?from...
Soon, other, more pertinent questions will have to be answered, too. For instance, how was it that the state police and Virginia Tech authorities allowed two hours to pass between the initial shootings (of the suspect’s ex-girlfriend and a resident advisor) and the mass slaughter that occurred in Norris Hall? Why was the university so slow in notifying students to stay inside and away from windows? Do we need better emergency alert systems on university campuses? And why was no one able to stop the shooter before the causalities mounted? Did the state police respond adequately...
...Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass., was a sophomore who had just declared English as his major. Friends created a memorial page on Facebook.com that described Alameddine as "an intelligent, funny, easygoing...
...such an amazing kid, Ross," wrote Zach Allen, who along with Alameddine attended Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Mass. "You always made me smile, and you always knew the right thing to do or say to cheer anyone...