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...founder, Indonesian Adrian Zecha, it was love at first sight. "I still remember my arrival, after a long, long journey from Hong Kong," he says. "It was late afternoon, and in the fading sunlight the snow-capped top of Grand Teton looked like molten gold." Floor-to-ceiling window walls ensure guests also enjoy this glittering view. Perched on a butte in Teton Valley and set among the sprawling acres of Spring Creek Ranch, the hotel stands apart from other five-star resorts clustered in the nearby ski village...
...Iraq, looks as if it could be a darker update of The Best Years of Our Lives. And perhaps, if the planned adaptation of Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies is actually made (Crash director Paul Haggis has expressed an interest in it), Hollywood will have opened a window or two on the events that have preoccupied us this last half-decade...
...Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), which has posted a list of more than 150 serious data compromises so far in 2006. The breaches include lost bank backup tapes, hacking losses, stolen laptops, and releases of private information like AOL's. "This latest leak gives us a window into the sensitivity of search strings," Givens says. "We all use search engines and don't think about what someone could learn about the most sensitive aspects of our lives by studying what we search for over time...
...only thing worse than the view from the window is being seated next to someone who hasn't taken the flight before. During one especially difficult landing in 2004, a retired American cop wouldn't stop screaming "Oh, God! Oh, God!" I finally had to slap him on the face--on instructions from the flight attendant. Another time the man in the window seat was a muscular, heavily tattooed Polynesian ex-commando who spent an hour telling me of his life as a mercenary in a succession of South Pacific island nations--stories that often ended with his punching, stabbing...
...serious challenge from science, the afterlife--which religion affirmed and science scoffed at--became a subject of nervous fascination. Respectable people held parlor séances. Celebrity spiritualists like D.D. Home even made house calls. In 1869 three witnesses in a London residence reported that Home levitated, floated out a window and drifted back in through the window of another room...