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...According to marketing company SevenOne Media, Germans spend $43.7 billion a year on home improvements, double the amount spent in Britain and France. The biggest beneficiary of this trend is OBI, the Home Depot of Europe, whose CEO, Sergio Giroldi, says the company sold $7.6 billion worth of tools, wood and home decorations last year. He expects 10% growth this year. That's a good sign, since Germans still have a lot of work to do if they want to turn their country around. --With reporting by Regine Wosnitza/Berlin
...Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood was crowned ‘Best Actor of All Time’ after winning a chicken-wing eating contest in a campus classroom...
...skull-in-a-beanbag works. But the centerpiece will be Killing Time, 2003-2004, a still-life table overflowing with the sea creatures of Swallow's Australian childhood in the Victorian fishing town of San Remo. Like the other Venice works, it is carved from the light, blond wood of the rubber tree, jelutong. Any paler and it would disappear into the walls. Up close, the forensic detail - a lobster springs up with the alacrity of an ocean wave, the rind of a lemon dangles spellbound over the table's edge - can send shivers up spines...
Bryant now bounces from the criminal-justice system into the civil arena. His attorneys may have to assign a price to keep him from giving what will be a very sordid deposition. Atlanta attorney L. Lin Wood, who represents the plaintiff, told TIME, "There have been no settlement discussions with respect to the civil case," adding that Bryant's apology was independent of the civil matter...
...Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture, designing buildings that blend comfortably with their natural surroundings. He typically relied on stone, cedar siding, wood shingles and discreet lighting for his creations, which included fountains, gardens and pavilions...