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...living areas showing up on the patio. Now the trappings of traditional living rooms--lamps and elaborate furniture--are suddenly migrating to the bathroom. "Bathrooms are becoming more and more of a retreat," says Barbara Sallick, co-founder and senior vice president of design at Waterworks. "As that phenomenon evolves, people want better quality, more beauty and more comfort in their bathroom." So instead of the standard toilet and sink, newly styled bathrooms are elaborate extensions of the bedroom, furnished with pieces like Williams-Sonoma Home's Victoria Collection dresser, left, which can be used as a sink. Or Kohler...
...battle, separating cultural issues from religious values," says Siddiqui. The school does teach how to avoid being seduced by those parts of American culture many parents consider un-Islamic. "What we're up against in movies, television and music," she says, "is profanity, sex and violence. The whole teenage phenomenon in the U.S. is one of personal power - claiming their own voice, their own soul, their own spirit. We don't want to crush that. We want to guide...
...Sept. 14, Tribe posted a message on Velvel’s blog, calling “the problem of writers, political office–seekers, judges and other high government officials passing off the work of others as their own” a “phenomenon of some significance.” This prompted a reader to send an anonymous tip to the Weekly Standard pointing out the similarities between passages in Abraham’s book and Tribe?...
...response to this phenomenon that the Bush administration insisted that more funding be devoted to the “chronically homeless,” according to Mangano...
Though students still fit comfortably into the Yard and each of the eight River Houses in the early 1950s, the population growth phenomenon now known as the Baby Boom was just beginning to make itself heard in the halls of higher education...