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...even more exclusive level, designer Tory Burch's shop, Tory, in New York City's NoLIta neighborhood is designed to look like her own living room, with overstuffed sofas, orange walls and a coffee table and rug reminiscent of the style of interior decorator David Hicks. While the shop may look exclusive, the merchandise...
...Child Left Behind is riddled with problems, but its biggest flaw is that it distracts policymakers from solutions that work. Educators know which programs work, and they know that declaring a school “failing” and then pulling the rug out from under it isn’t going to improve public education. Federal education policy must focus less on finding out which schools failed to educate some small subgroup of students and more on giving teachers the resources they need to succeed...
...With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oil-field fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals [and] fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms ... For all his flamboyance?he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair?Adair is methodical about his business, [and] carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire 'so as to have a little nugget handy in our minds to lick a problem next time it shows...
There is profiteering, of course - a rug seller in the bazaars of Istanbul would be embarrassed to attempt the mark-ups found in some second-rate hotels - but mostly it's the same gentle gouging of tourists that is sport in every city worth visiting...
...making that announcement, Hawking recanted a position he had held for nearly 30 years. He also pulled the rug out from under a generation of science-fiction fans, declaring dead a favorite plot device. "There is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes," he said, with evident regret. And, finally, he conceded defeat in a long-standing bet with Caltech astrophysicist John Preskill, who thought there wasn't a problem in the first place...