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...answer to the question "Did you sleep well?" may depend on where you live. According to "Sleep in the City," a study that ranks the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas according to whose residents sleep best, Minneapolis tops the list, reporting 23 nights of good sleep a month. The country's most fitful sleepers hail from Detroit, with Cleveland and Nashville close behind. (See TIME.com/sleep for the full list...
...DIED. ROBERT MERRILL, 87, powerful baritone who was a favorite at the Metropolitan Opera for three decades; in New York City. In his 30 years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike many opera singers of his age, Merrill never avoided the mainstream: he appeared occasionally in Las Vegas and his recording of the national anthem was used for many years to open games at Yankee Stadium...
...outrage hasn't stopped there. Beenie Man is the focus of a criminal probe in Britain, where under the Public Order Act, it is unlawful to use threatening words to incite violence. "This is the first investigation of its kind," says Detective Clive Driscoll of London's Metropolitan Police. So far, activists haven't targeted the artist's main record label, Virgin Records. A spokesman for Virgin says the offending songs were released by an unaffiliated label...
...English town of Totnes. Nestled in the lush pastures and wheatfields near Dartmoor in southern Devon, Totnes for decades made a quiet living from cream teas, antiques and postcards. But these days, it's a magnet for urban refugees running the kinds of bohemian businesses normally associated with trendy metropolitan neighborhoods...
...town of Totnes. Nestled in the lush pastures and wheat fields near Dartmoor in southern Devon, Totnes for decades made a quiet living from cream teas, antiques and postcards. But these days, it's a magnet for urban refugees running the kind of bohemian business normally associated with trendy metropolitan neighborhoods. Twenty years ago, Totnes' idea of radical was reduced-fat cream. Now, a stroll through its Tudor-period Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...