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Fancy floor tiles
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The exotic stones are found in and around the volcanic lakes of the Indonesian island of Flores, a former Portuguese colony. They come in 15 shapes and colors — flat black, flat white, pink, green, terra cotta and marble. Installation is easy: Pour concrete where you want it, place the squares on top, and grout as you like. They can even be placed directly into sand for a less-structured look.ÊThe 10-to-a-box squares retail for about $25, or a reasonable $2.50 per square foot. Information: 524-2290, or visit the showroom at 560 N. Nimitz Highway.
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There are some things women just don't want to have seen when they're rifling through their handbags in public. Now fashion designer Nicole Miller has tackled the design of one such item: birth control pills. She has created ready-for-the-runway limited edition compacts designed to carry — and conceal — one pill brand, Ortho Tri-Cyclen tablets.
A fashion and pharmaceutical first, the girly little dispensers come in two designs, "Red High Heels" and "Zebra Kiss." They're available by phone at (866) 221-1031 or online at www.orthotri-cyclen.com.
CURE: the magazine
Magazines for healthy people talk about dieting your way into a new swimsuit and having better sex. CURE — Cancer Updates, Research and Education — has stories about starving away tumors and about sex (is there or isn't there?) after prostate cancer.
The new publication, based in Dallas but nationally distributed, is intended for people with cancer who want technical information in a clear, reader-friendly format. Subscriptions are free for the first year at least; drug companies are picking up the tab with full-page ads. Information: www.curetoday.com/.
Lu'au at Graceland
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| ELVIS PRESLEY |
She has no friends until she adopts Stitch, a mischievous space alien. In the film, the small, blue creature does an Elvis impersonation in a white jumpsuit.
To emphasize the Elvis-Hawai'i connection, Disney put on an elaborate lu'au at Graceland last Thursday. Hula dancers, Hawaiian torches and banquet tables covered with thatched roofs greeted the more than 600 guests — business associates of Graceland and Disney and their families.
Presley made three movies in Hawai'i and staged two of his best-known concerts here, a benefit for the USS Arizona in 1961 and "Aloha From Hawaii" in 1973.
