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...dedicated to the prodigious output of just one brain. With more than 5,000 chronologically ordered items of clothing (dating back to the 1960s and spanning 45 years), plus 15,000 accessories and a vast collection of the master's drawings and sketches, this 300-sq-m repository offers an experience that's a cross between window shopping and anthropological study-and it's all housed in the very building Saint Laurent worked in from 1974 until his retirement in 2002, at the age of 66. Here are the fabled trench coats and safari suits; there are the seminal panther...
...dozen women wearing balaclavas, woolen trousers and bulky jackets work inside a room kept at a constant 3?C, peeling and chopping vegetables, spinning them dry and then heaping them in small plastic packets before placing them in plastic transport crates. At the other end of the 5,600-sq-m warehouse, men unload crates of grapes from a truck pulled up to a spotless loading dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good a team will ready them for delivery within hours to Reliance Fresh stores around Bangalore and as far away...
...night, a stay at the Presidential Cottage at the Montgomery Marriott Prattville Hotel and Conference Center in Alabama entitles you to a personal butler, chef and heliport. You need only ring the chimes in one of the five suites in the 10,000-sq.-ft. cottage, and the butler will draw your bath or bring your favorite snack. "As long as it's legal and ethical, our butler will get you anything you want," says Walter Kennedy, the hotel's general manager...
...that isn't decadent enough, how about dropping $100,000 for an extravagant weekend in Vegas? At the Ritz-Carlton in Henderson, Nev., the Love at Lake Las Vegas weekend package includes two nights in the 2,400-sq.-ft. presidential suite, helicopter and gondola rides, a champagne-tasting dinner on a yacht complete with rose petals strewn about and a string trio, use of a luxury car throughout the stay, in-room couples spa treatment, a $5,000 casino line of credit, a $50,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus, 14 dozen roses and a butler-drawn Cristal champagne...
...Capitol or a lack of oversight. "I could directly attribute the delays and cost overruns to members of Congress who couldn't make a decision, or made them and they weren't good," he says. For example, Mica says that Congress initially was going to reserve 160,000 sq. feet of undeveloped space inside the CVC facility for future office use. But in 2001, lawmakers realized it would be cheaper to develop the office space immediately. This change caused at least a year in delays, which in turn increased the budget...