Diplomats and heads of state bed down surrounded by antiques, jewel-toned silk walls, crystal chandeliers and marble bathrooms at the 138-room Hotel Imperial Vienna, which was built as the residence of the Prince of Wurttemberg, a European aristocrat, in 1863.

BBC: Business trip: Vienna

The state most afflicted by bed bugs is a bit of a surprise: Ohio.

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The road ran on the bed of an old highway built when these lands lay within a princely state.

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The District on Apache, a 1, 200-bed student-housing community set to open within walking distance of Arizona State next year, will feature an oversize outdoor movie screen, steam rooms and a 300-foot-long "lazy river" water feature, according to architect Mark Humphreys, whose firm designed University House.

WSJ: Resort Living Comes to Campus

And the government insists that the state of the economy will inevitably be felt on the sea bed, like everywhere else.

BBC: Cash shortage stretches to sea bed

New Jersey is not known as a hot bed of bluegrass music, so the group Railroad Earth is sort of an oddity in the Garden State.

NPR: Railroad Earth Jams Live on Two-CD 'Elko'

As an office bed and sanctioned afternoon naps are not likely solutions, researchers are looking into what can lift people out of this soporific state after lunch.

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