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...revolutionized American motels by introducing standardization and emphasizing cleanliness and value. The era of the big convention-oriented hotels checked in during the 1970s. And in 1984, New York City nightclub entrepreneur Ian Schrager came up with the boutique hotel concept. But for the most part, the basic business model has changed little: sell travelers perfectly acceptable yet generic places to stay for the night at ever-increasing prices, particularly in the world's major cities...
...Today, several trends make that model ripe for a makeover. The World Tourism Organization predicts global tourism will grow at an average annual rate of 4.1% over the next several years, which means more than a billion tourists a year will be on the move by 2010. And many of them will be economy-minded travelers who often pay less than $100 for a plane ticket and aren't inclined to spend several hundred bucks more for a hotel room. At the same time, large plots of real estate in major cities have become increasingly scarce and expensive, making...
...complex will use radiant underfloor heating and cooling, rather than the traditional model in which air is blown into rooms...
...neighborhoods of West Philadelphia. Other Ivies also have strong community-based learning programs, which have flourished, in large measure, because they support professors in developing curricula that integrate activity-based work with classroom learning. Activity-based components are not merely tacked onto courses as an afterthought, as the latest model proposed by Harvard’s Task Force on General Education may appear to suggest...
Imagine you’re Mark Wahlberg: you’ve gone from being a hoodlum on the streets of Boston to an underwear model to a mediocre rapper to an Academy-Award-nominee. What would you do next? Star in an action film, obviously. With “Shooter,” a thriller about sniper Bob Lee Swagger—who is framed in an attempted assassination of the president—Mark Wahlberg returns to a rough-and-tumble role similar to the butt-kicking captain he played in “Planet of the Apes...