The floating world

Article Abstract:

Most of the 5,000-member crew of the USS Carl Vinson are support personnel, including takeoff launchers, 81 medical personnel, 10 barbers, ordnance preparers, refuelers, 150 cooks, and a 6-person media staff.

Social aspects, Aircraft carriers, Air warfare, Afghanistan Conflict, 2001-, Carl Vinson (Aircraft carrier)

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Scraping the bottom: one man's appraisal of 'low-life modern.'(Style)(excerpt of T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings's 'Homes of the Brave')(Humor)(Column)

Article Abstract:

Designer and critic T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (d. 1976) was a witty detractor of the interior decoration trends of the 1940s and '50s. Here he satirizes the low-slung, floor-hugging chairs of the avant-garde.

Column, Humor and anecdotes, Modern art, Modernism (Art), Furniture, Architecture, American, American architecture, Homes of the Brave (Book)

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Scraping by

Article Abstract:

The increasingly tight housing market and the desire for larger homes has accelerated the trend to buy houses, only to tear them down and rebuild. Specific cases are cited.

United States, Housing, Dwellings, Remodeling and renovation, Suburbs, Home remodeling

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