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Their accommodations were primitive: an air mattress on a concrete floor in a two-room school and an outdoor shower with only cold water. The work of weeding and raking under a blinding blue sky was demanding, but John Krausser, 63, and his wife Traudi, 59, didn't mind. They were, after all, in the peaceful countryside of Greece, and the view of olive groves, the craggy Peloponnesian terrain and the ocean was spectacular...
...blazing morning sun, they had afternoons free and soon discovered a beautiful sweeping sand beach frequented only by a few local families. "This became our favorite spot," John says, "where we would swim, sunbathe and read." Surrounded by all that beauty, who wouldn't put up with an air mattress...
...another work about another Mary was--last year's bathroom-humor blockbuster, Something About Mary. It's lewd and long on visual pratfalls, and there is not a great deal else to do but roll your eyes as you pass Sarah Lucas' Au Naturel (1994), a dingy mattress leaning against a wall with an erect cucumber shooting up with two oranges at its base, two ripe melons across the way...you get the idea...
...accidents in a crib. These fatalities are separate from so-called crib deaths - or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - where young children die for no apparent reason. Particularly risky to infants, say the study?s authors, are the weight of unconscious adults, the spaces between the headboard and mattress in many beds and the indentations common in older waterbeds...
...test will be whether any discipline at all can survive the headlines about the extra $1,000,000,000,000 the government expects to find under the mattress. So much depends on the projections' being right, when the happiest news of the year has been how wrong they turned out to be. Five years ago, the deficit for 1999 was projected at $207 billion. Last February the budget office announced instead we would run a $79 billion surplus; just four months later, it was $99 billion...