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Among the highlights of the Grand Hyatt Singapore's recently completed renovations are three superchic presidential suites, adding to the choice of top-end berths in the Lion City. Perched high above the throngs of Orchard Road, these[an error occurred while processing this directive] palatial aeries can be expanded from one to four bedrooms if you're traveling with an entourage of, say, Cabinet Ministers, groupies or bodyguards. The suites were conceived by Santa Monica?based architect and designer Beatrice Girelli to a contemporary brief - furnishings are deliberately understated, and the color palette kept to a soothing selection...
...Richard Branson grabbed headlines by pledging to invest all future proceeds of his Virgin Group's airline and train businesses to fight global warming. But other commitments with smaller budgets were similarly designed to have a real impact. The Global Partnership for Afghanistan pledged to launch 100 commercially viable orchard and woodlot businesses. The Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation partnered with child-rights activist Craig Kielburger to "adopt a village" in the Masai Mara of Kenya. With an investment of only $68,000 in the first year, they will help change the lives of 1,000 children and adults...
...downtown location was as essential to the success of a fashionable restaurant as, say, a celebrity clientele or a daring menu. But that's not true in the case of Singapore's new breed of modish eateries. A few of the city's fashion-forward restaurateurs have forsaken Orchard Road's madding crowds in favor of verdant retreats where cool cuisine comes with a side order of peace and quiet. Maybe it's due to a reluctance to pay city-center rents. Or perhaps it's because of the realization that, in compact Singapore, nowhere is that far from anywhere...
...downtown location was as essential to the success of a fashionable restaurant as, say, a celebrity clientele or a daring menu. But that's not true in the case of Singapore's new breed of modish eateries. A few of the city's fashion-forward restaurateurs have forsaken Orchard Road's madding crowds in favor of verdant retreats where cool cuisine comes with a side order of peace and quiet. Maybe it's due to a reluctance to pay city-center rents. Or perhaps it's because of the realization that, in compact Singapore, nowhere is that far from anywhere...
Believe it or not, Environmental Studies just might save your life. John Stilgoe, the Robert and Lois Orchard professor in the History of Landscape, and professor of Environmental Studies in the VES department, relates a little-publicized Sept. 11, 2001 survival story: “Several of my former students who are now working in New York City contacted me after 9-11 and thanked me for saving their lives. I give a lecture each year in which I describe what happens in a major city after a natural disaster. My students who were in New York on that terrible...