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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rent a bicycle at Versailles and tour the gardens. Astel (33-1-39-66-97-66) has three different rental locations. The best one is at the Grille de la Reine. My favorite place to go in the park is the Trianon Palace and gardens on a beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris: Christian Louboutin | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...last school year, the answer is still ‘no.’ And they’re angry about it. The students, mostly Kirkland House residents, are directing their frustration at Collegeboxes, a firm that The Wall Street Journal has called the largest national storage and rental business geared towards college clients. They say Collegeboxes either lost their belongings or did not deliver their possessions or reimbursement checks on time. Because Kirkland underwent renovations last summer, residents had to stash their belongings through Collegeboxes in order to receive free storage. Undergraduate Council members are calling...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Fret Over Boxes Lost In Storage | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...depending on how complicated they are to design. Companies also pay monthly subscription fees to rent fan machines that disperse the scents into the air. Smaller retailers can buy simple smells--sage and pomegranate, rosemary eucalyptus, white ginger--off the rack for $100 a month, including fan rental. And ScentAir is expanding its repertoire by cooking up smells that are meant not to charm but to repel: last month it re-created the smell of burning electrical wire for a military simulation; earlier, it had dreamed up dinosaur dung for a children's museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scents and Sensibility | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

Time's put-down of the Ford Motor Co. was way out of line. Unlike the rental described in your story, my Ford Focus has an armrest and cruise control, plus side air bags, antilock brakes--and it gets between 32 and 34 m.p.g. I have been faithful to the company for more than 50 years because of its products, because it has more of a social conscience than other big manufacturers and because I try my best to buy American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 9, 2006 | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

Last spring Kenny and her husband rented a furnished apartment in the center of Salisbury, England, over the Internet. Even though they are highly experienced at the rental game, they failed to ask enough questions and were stunned once they arrived to discover that the flat was above a noisy carpet shop, the patio looked out on a large parking lot, and the master-bedroom window had a too-close-for-comfort view of the bathroom in a neighboring bicycle-repair shop. "And this apartment was rated four stars by the English tourist board," says Kenny. "The location was good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Slow Road | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

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