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...African desert. Enter the world of Donna Karan. Like Ralph Lauren, she is an expert seductress when it comes to style. She can conjure her last trip to Egypt or Israel by simply painting the walls the color of wet sand, burning tangy incense and laying out a rough plywood floor. By the time the frocks come galloping out on platform shoes with heels that are sculpted in such a way as to resemble the handles of kitchen utensils, the clothes seem irrelevant. You're in Donna's world and everything else falls away. In her world it's easy...
...first thing to do was sort out the bodies. The other bed in the room was empty, so we picked up the nurse and put her on her back on a back-board (a flat piece of plywood that makes chest compressions more effective than they are on a soft bed). She had no palpable pulse and the nurses couldn't get a blood pressure, but she was still weakly responsive to noxious stimuli. This is the medical term for stuff that bothers...
...Being plopped onto a piece of plywood, having your clothes ripped off, a two hundred pound man driving the heels of his hands into the center of your chest while others poke needles into your limbs and groin, another squeezes a rubber mask over your face and another prepares to send four hundred watt-seconds of electricity across your body is a noxious stimulus, however you slice...
...Geane Brito started their retail business as frustrated new parents who, like many of their design-obsessed customers, could not find well-designed products for their children. "We had kids a bit later, so we had money to spend," says Brito. "But the field is dominated by plastic and plywood...
Homebuilders are eager to start reconstruction--some 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone need to be rebuilt--but supplies may be tight as the city is an import hub for cement and other building materials. Plywood will probably cost more for a while; after Hurricane Andrew, the price shot from...