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...told his employees. All others were soon replaced by signs twice their size. The guy who once had Frank Sinatra pinch his cheeks for a commercial and who earlier this year had helicopters shoot videotape of him while he stood on a 5-ft.-wide catwalk on the roof of his 50-story hotel for a new TV ad is just getting going when it comes to promotion. His giant signature is not only on the top of the building and the clock radios in every room but also underneath the sheets on the mattresses. The man is even branding...
...been 30 years since the last helicopter fluttered off a Saigon rooftoop roof on April 30, 1975, the images of desperate Vietnamese clinging to the chopper's landing slats burned into both countries' consciousness. That moment marked the end of a 15-year debacle that claimed more than 50,000 American lives?and more than 1 million Vietnamese. For years, many Americans, like the Lus, have sought to forget the image of the U.S.'s ignominious retreat from Vietnam?but to the American military and political establishment, the legacy of that war has become steadily more haunting...
...Stick” about an emotionally dead man, asks if life is worth living if it is too mundane. Fairley leaves his director’s chair for a moment to also act as the man who, unsatisfied with life, turns into a stick and falls of the roof of a building. As a stick, he cannot respond to the pair of messengers from Hell who, sent to judge his life, decide to throw him to the ground to be lost in a mass of other sticks which hold the souls of other...
...Stem Cell Institute, an initiative led by Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas Melton and established last year, does not currently have its own facilities. It also will be given space in Allston to accommodate all researchers under one roof...
Inflation that you feel but can't see comes in many forms. Real estate prices have gone through the roof, so cash buyers are paying through the nose. Borrowers are increasingly resorting to floating-rate and interest-only loans, which all but guarantee that they will pay more over the life of their loans. Officially, though, housing looks like a bargain. Why? The housing component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is based on rents, which are tame and in some regions have even fallen...