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...mildly, particle board makes for an unlikely luxury material, but give it enough shine, and--who knew?--it's more vivacious than an ocelot throw rug. Then again, coming at you with the unexpected is at the heart of what Adjaye does. "What I'm trying to say," he explains, "is that this might be the cheapest bloody material you can imagine, and it's beautiful." For the record, these days he's building himself a second home in Ghana made partly...
Shrimpy, a character who looks like a pig-in-blanket cocktail snack performs "Soapin' Up the Hawg" at the beginning of the short story, "The Mighty Kingdom of Shrimpy-Ub." His motivation for doing so, on a rug in the middle of his living room, remains unspoken, as do the origins of the ritual. His roommate Paul, who has a similar wiener-like shape, but taller and with a nose, lips and pronounced nipples, cocks his eyebrow in bafflement. The dance seems connected to the little Ib-Ubs, tiny four-legged creatures who begin erecting small towers on the floor...
...breezy words by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week--"It is also possible that [the Iraqis] decided they would destroy [their WMD] prior to a conflict"--have pulled the rug from under Blair's argument and caused a wave of anti-Blair commentaries. While Bush freely tossed out multiple arguments for war, including alleged Iraqi links with al-Qaeda and the righteousness of changing an "evil" regime, by Blair's tight logic, no WMD meant no war could be legitimate. That could spell trouble for Tony...
...neighborhood bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with a €376 million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanad...
Once upon a time, outbreaks of disease and environmental catastrophe could be swept under the rug. Man-made famines in Russia in the 1930s and China two decades later were scarcely known outside their borders. But more recently the world has become too interconnected for deception of that magnitude. In 1986, when a nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, the Soviet government initially tried to keep it quiet. But when Geiger counters in Scandinavia went haywire, Moscow had to come clean. This year the truth about SARS emerged after citizens infected in China traveled outside the country--and after...