Great John Street has pretty spectacular rooms, with Egyptian cotton sheets and free-standing baths.

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The Australian "15 Milmil 15" wool feels like silk, breathes like Egyptian cotton and wears like iron.

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As the son of a wealth Egyptian cotton farmer, Sarofim was born and raised in Egypt but moved to America in 1946.

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My missing suitcase housed my overnight essentials, without which I am lost: Egyptian cotton pajamas and a small electric fan for white noise.

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The 153-room modern lodging, connected to the airport via the regular LINK train, offers extra comfort amenities such as 100% Egyptian cotton and goose down bedding and work stations with ergonomic chairs.

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The rooms are spacious too, starting at 375 square feet, with good-size work desks and inviting caramel-colored leather chairs for lounging, plus supremely comfortable beds with Egyptian cotton sheets and tons of goose-down pillows.

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If you exchange the words Egyptian-cotton industry with European Aerospace-lobbying industry in Heller's passage above, you would have a good summation of how EADS has been trying to justify its activities and market itself to the American public.

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Take it easy: Allow the worries of your day-to-day to fall away as you curl up an Egyptian waffle-cotton robe.

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