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...Schrager is also expanding his portfolio into urban planning. Adjacent to the Gramercy is a 23-unit John Pawson--designed condominium, evidence of Schrager's master plan to combine hotels with full-time residential properties--at $5 million to $10 million apiece. He is about to announce a 10,000-unit residential, retail and hotel complex in Las Vegas, inspired by the Tivoli Gardens, Central Park and a Tuscan town square. In a softening housing market, the Las Vegas project will be a stern test of Schrager's vision. "Everything Ian does has levels of influence," says Ross Klein, president...
...reclaim public space by staging word-of-mouth screenings of films ranging from politically subversive shorts to Dirty Dancing, and it has inspired other guerrilla-flick efforts in Portland, Me., and West Chester, Pa. In Berkeley, Calif., Web developer Bryan Kennedy turned his car into a mobile movie unit, a sort of drive-in that actually drives in, with a DVD player, a projector and an FM transmitter that beams a movie's sound track to other cars. His technology has given rise to the MobMov movement, with chapters worldwide, creating free film venues in any open space. Kennedy offers...
...combat ration packs. "There's no chance of a soldier going hungry in the field," says Benstead, who'd clearly regard that as a personal defeat. "A happy soldier is a well-fed soldier," he says. "I always push into my chefs that we are the morale of the unit." More morale, at times, than some can handle: "Often after an exercise people say, 'What have you done to me? I should lose weight in the field, and I've put it on.' I say, 'Well, you're eating too much.'" He chuckles, as if that...
Batesville is counting on that. Founded in 1884, Batesville Casket Co.--named for its hometown in Indiana--adopted Toyota's vaunted manufacturing techniques in the 1990s to improve quality, speed delivery and reduce costs. Today the unit of $1.3 billion Hillenbrand Industries (which also makes medical equipment) says it completes one casket every 53 seconds and delivers it usually within 48 hours. Batesville offers 600 casket designs in 150 color combinations and 30 shapes. Although it owns 45% of the market, even the casket leader can no longer take that position for granted. Time was, funeral directors flocked to Indiana...
...powerful touchstone as the unpopular war grinds on, more U.S. troops and Iraqis die and Congressional elections loom. Nowhere was that more clear than in a Washington, D.C., courthouse this week. That's where lawyers for Marine Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the 26-year-old who was the unit leader that day in Haditha, called U.S. Congressman John Murtha a liar. Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who served as a Marine in Vietnam and who in recent months has become increasingly outspoken in his opposition to the Iraq war, said in May 2006 that based on briefings from the military that...