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...Rings movies is playing on mute on the big downstairs flat screen TV.In the kitchen, I thumb through the mail—Netflix to return, a National Geographic, an envelope from the YMCA—that’s resting lightly on the marble island around the stove. I look at the photos on the refrigerator of Andrew’s sister cranking a pottery wheel and his brother hefting a javelin with a bike helmet resting crooked on his head, and Andrew himself, maybe five years ago, doing a cannonball into a pile of leaves. When...
...children to a nonprofit English-language school, Asheema, for the next eight years, just to make sure they attend. Already there are signs of new affluence in the kids' slum dwellings. Rubiana's house was reportedly fitted with a 32-in. LCD TV screen and a new gas stove...
...some serious dining, with thoughtful extras like exquisite local olive oil. Though Borgo Tranquillo (www.borgotranquillo.com) is perfect for soaking in the sun, guests are as likely to be lured by year-round mountain-biking, truffle-hunting and palazzo-visiting. And because each apartment has a striking wood-burning stove, every busy day out can be followed by some cozy tranquillo time...
...trials. The proceedings are the latest twist in a long history of a global fight over property rights - a struggle that some say began in America with the country's Founding Fathers ( Benjamin Franklin was all for handing out for free the ideas for his inventions like the Franklin Stove) and extended through Yippie Abbie Hoffman (who named his 1971 book about conning the system Steal This Book...
...center. The interior is wonderfully accurate, thanks to sketches of the family home prepared in 1860 for magazine readers eager to know more about their new president. In fact, much of the furniture is authentic - you can see the chairs Lincoln sat in, the desk he wrote on, the stove he stoked in winter. Mary used a chamberpot; Abe preferred the outhouse. (See pictures of how people are cashing in on Barack Obama around the world...