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...trifle lightly with the Harbin mattress," warned travel writer Putnam Weale after a trip to China's frozen, northern metropolis. "It is capable not only of assuming a defensive attitude, but one of absolute offense." A century after Weale's Harbin sojourn, accommodations there are more, well, accommodating. Among the classier places to stay is the Lungmen Hotel, tel: (86-451) 8679 1888. Once a station hotel along the Trans-Siberian railroad, the Lungmen is a portal to Harbin's colonial past, when the city was ruled by Russians and vied with Shanghai for the sobriquet "Paris of the East...
...lose allure, the boys of Hurlbut 301 do what any conscientious, sophisticated Harvard men would do—bother the girls downstairs. Stephanie L. Sawlit ’07 recalls crawling into bed late one night, partied out and longing for rest, only to collapse on her bare mattress; all of her sheets had suspiciously disappeared...
...camp as part of the U.S.'s wartime internment of the Japanese, and Setsuo missed his Stanford graduation. "We could only take what we could carry," Norma, 77, says of their experience. "We brought one suitcase and stayed in a horse stable, where we used hay as our mattress," she says. After their release, Setsuo went on to study at Harvard and had a long career as an electrical engineer. To move to the new Palo Alto residence, the Dairikis are giving up a nearby 6,000-sq.-ft. home with an indoor swimming pool. "All these years later...
Orthopedic physicians often recommend that patients sleep on firm mattresses to alleviate low-back pain, but a study in last week's issue of the Lancet suggests that such advice is based on little more than folklore. In a randomized trial, researchers at the Kovacs Foundation in Spain assigned 313 subjects with chronic low-back pain to either a firm or a medium-firm mattress to sleep on for three months. Good news for those of us who like a little give in our cribs: patients who slept on the medium-firm mattresses were twice as likely as those sleeping...
Another impetus for the board to explore alternative tests is the persistence of gaps in SAT scores between racial and ethnic groups. Here, too, the Rainbow Project shows some promise. On the practical-intelligence portions of the test (the part in which students persuade friends to haul the mattress), there were no differences in scores between groups. On the creative portions, the differences were considerably smaller than they are on the SAT. And in some sections, groups that traditionally fare poorly on standardized tests thrived. Native Americans did especially well on the oral part...