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...Hotels. "Now people want their stay to be more like home." And apparently what people want most is to sleep as well as they do in their own beds. Thus many luxury hotels, such as Loews' Regency Hotel in New York City (below), are rolling out a variety of overnight amenities, such as plush, custom-designed beds, white-noise machines, sleep handbooks, warm milk and cookies, and even pillow menus. The Four Seasons Hotel offers guests five pillow varieties, including buckwheat, feather and hypoallergenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: The Best Rest | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...Israel sent troops into the West Bank overnight Thursday in response to two suicide bombings in Jerusalem that killed 26 Israelis over two days. This time, the Israelis came to stay, bringing mobile homes of the type commonly used by West Bank settlers to build a makeshift barracks in line with a tough new policy announced by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Israel now plans to capture Palestinian Authority-controlled territory in response to each suicide attack, and will hold such territory until attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Bombings: Can Bush Respond? | 6/20/2002 | See Source »

Does this mean that the church should take a poll on its doctrines, or change its rules on celibacy or sex overnight? Of course not. On this, some church conservatives are surely right. The church is not a democracy. Any change on administrative matters needs to be reflected on, examined in the light of Scripture and tradition. In the end, the hierarchy exists for a reason and will make the final call. Obedience matters. But real obedience requires respect; and until the hierarchy listens, makes its case, cleans up its own act, obedience will be difficult, if not indefensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Says the Church Can't Change? | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

Khoo Thwe's education is abruptly terminated in 1987, when Burma's superstition-obsessed dictator, General Ne Win, orders the nation's bank-notes to be replaced with new denominations divisible by nine, his lucky number. The savings of millions of Burmese (Khoo Thwe's included) are wiped out overnight. To make ends meet, the author abandons his studies to wait tables at a grotty Chinese restaurant, the improbable setting for a chance encounter with a Cambridge literature don, Dr. John Casey, who will later change his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Education | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...everything for the young physicist. Learning of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Japan in 1945, Sakharov related: "I was so stunned that my legs practically gave way. There could be no doubt that my fate and the fate of many others, perhaps of the entire world, had changed overnight. Something new and awesome had entered our lives, a product of the greatest of the sciences, of the discipline I revered." Before long, he found himself seconded to work with an ?lite group ordered to provide the Soviet Union with an identical weapon. Ever a patriot, he had no political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics and Freedom | 6/9/2002 | See Source »

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