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FURNITURE while studying census and medical data in 2000, designers at mattressmaker Simmons noticed that the average American is 10% larger now than when its king and queen sizes were introduced four decades ago, according to Don Hofmann, senior vice president of marketing. So Simmons placed a 66-in.-wide platform on the 60-in. queen box spring, making room for a wider mattress dubbed the Olympic Queen. Hofmann believes the model has fueled an 8% growth in sales of his firm's larger mattresses. His hunch that Americans need more room in the sack is borne out by industry...
Leaving the hospital after knee surgery, QUEEN ELIZABETH II was greeted by what the Times of London described as an "audible intake of breath" from onlookers. And who could blame them? The woman was wearing pants. In her 50 years on the throne, QE2 has clung to a conservative wardrobe of skirts and dresses. Her pantsuit prompted reams of commentary, from approval of her accessories (pearls, silk scarf) to interviews with Peter Enrione, the man who designed the ensemble. A scramble to uncover the last time the Queen appeared publicly in trousers turned up a photo from 1945, when...
Nguyen Gia Thieu's neighbors rarely saw him, except when they glimpsed his silver Mercedes gliding through the gates of his three-story villa in Ho Chi Minh City. His lifestyle?the house, the servants, the beauty-queen wife?befitted one of Vietnam's top entrepreneurs, but it infuriated the community. One neighbor snarls, "They are too rich to even look at ordinary people." So there was no sympathy on Jan. 7 when police arrested Thieu, 38, then raided his house, hauling off reams of documents and more than $250,000 in cash. The charge: his Dong Nam Telecom Trade...
...Queen of England is not yet cutting coupons, but a recent survey by the British Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that Her Majesty earned far less than certain commoners last year. Harry Potter author J.K. ROWLING was the top female earner in Britain in 2002, raking in $77 million, six times as much as the Queen. The newspaper ranked the women by annual salary, not accumulated wealth. JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN doesn't have to interview world leaders or tiptoe through blood-spattered crime scenes or try to contain Regis Philbin. Despite this, she will now earn more than most other...
...write a similarly gloomy tome on Central Africa. The Arab world's failure is noteworthy not because of its scale, but because on Sept. 11 it spilled out of its natural confines and into metropolitan America. With no legitimate channels for political discourse, Arabs have suffered from what Queen Rania of Jordan calls a "hope gap." For some, that gap has been filled by a passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope to combat the threat from such violence, it is not enough to toughen...