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...Edward Scheetz, a partner at real estate investment firm Northstar Capital, which, with help from financier George Soros, has shelled out a few hundred million dollars for a majority stake of the newly incorporated Ian Schrager Hotels. For instance, nearly everything in your room, from sheets and towels to toilet brushes, is for sale. Schrager's even giving thought to opening stores to sell these wares. And he leases in-house restaurants and bars, which can typically be a major drag on hotel earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where It's Chic To Sleep | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...most difficult things to do now? The most important thing is the toilet affairs. I can't do it for myself, and my wife has to help me. It's embarrassing. Another thing is bathing...eating...writing. I can urinate for myself now with no escort. I can't dress myself. I can't pray because I can't wash. I pray only at night when I'm going to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...drug regimen. But again, fearful that he'd get up and break a hip, they strapped him to his bed. He began to wither away, uninterested for the first time in food, because he was no longer allowed salt. He couldn't see to ring the bell for the toilet, so he would sometimes lie for hours in wet diapers or sheets until I or his 74-year-old sister would arrive for a visit. Half the time he didn't recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Care Of Our Aging Parents | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...core of all the gun evils are the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. When will the U.S. finally realize that selling a gun to everyone as if it were a roll of toilet paper is the cause of all the horror? JENS KURNER Regensburg, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...know those airline meal carts ? the ones that bump your knees and block the way to the toilet. Well, the ones on American Airlines flights from Colombia have been carrying a lot more than just bland airline food. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested more than 50 employees of the airline and its subcontractors in Miami Wednesday, after exposing a scheme in which drugs were concealed in the carts loaded in Colombia and then removed on arrival in the U.S. An undercover sting operation had also enticed the suspects into smuggling weapons and explosives aboard planes. Agents began investigating the smuggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Like the Chicken, the Beef or the Cocaine? | 8/25/1999 | See Source »

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