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...Fifth Avenue.) No order was too extravagant: Cartier created 27 tiaras for people attending the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. King Farouk of Egypt had solid-gold toothpicks specially made, the family of King Edward VII ordered jeweled can openers, and W.K. Vanderbilt requested 18-karat-gold yo-yos. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt filled a cake with Cartier jewels as a birthday gift for the Prince of Wales. And a challenge from a gemstone-laden maharaja inspired the elaborate mixes known as Tutti Frutti...
...President did lose weight every so often only to gain it back again time after time. That's known as yo-yo dieting, and cardiologists believe it's even worse for the arteries than just staying fat, especially for someone like Clinton, with a stressful job and a family history of heart problems. When he became President, his cholesterol was a borderline 203. By the time he left office, it was a dangerous 233, and his blood pressure was 136 over...
...Hotel for at least $360 million. Ian Schrager has FOR SALE signs up at two London sites, the swanky Sanderson and the St. Martins Lane Hotel. Stelios Haji-Ioannou's easyGroup is launching a chain of no-frills easyHotels in early 2005. And Simon Woodroffe - the man behind the YO! Sushi conveyor-belt eateries - is opening Yotel, cramming luxury into tiny, 10-sq-m rooms, inspired by Japan 's "capsule" hotels, for $135 a night. "It's budget chic," says Yotel exec Gerard Greene. "There are designer hotels everywhere, but not everyone can afford them." Britain may be the best...
...President Arafat is the master of ... the statement with the yo-yo string on it. It gets pulled back." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, expressing skepticism over the Palestinian leader's offer to share more power with Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei...
...Dutch maestro's move East is a mirror image of a process that has been going on worldwide for more than a decade: the gradual Asianizing of Western classical music. Today, Asian-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma not only reigns supreme on his instrument but he is also probably the most famous (and friendliest) face of classical music, as he busily builds bridges between West and East and with the rest of the developing world. A truly global force, Ma's recent projects include a collaboration with Brazilian musicians and, on June 15, a performance in Singapore...