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What Current Energy does isn't as easy as it looks. Maximizing the efficiency in your home means more than just chucking your incandescent lightbulbs. You might improve your attic insulation to prevent the loss of heat in the winter, but go overboard, and you could end up choking on indoor air pollution. Just as a house is more than four walls and a door, energy efficiency should be holistic, with insulation, appliances, lighting and clean electricity all working together...
Death may be, as the cliché has it, the ghost haunting the attic of everyone's mind, but the movies don't usually play it that way. They turn it into melodrama's force majeure, the sneering, swaggering (and generally well-armed) bully it is the hero's duty to resist and ultimately defeat - thoughts of his own inevitable mortality being matters for that last reel that no one ever bothers to shoot. Or think about...
...Middleton is our other Shakespeare, why don't you know more about him? Because he's the madwoman in the attic - the secret we don't want our kids to discover. Would your parents want you to marry someone who describes getting pregnant as being "poisoned with child"? In Shakespeare's 39 plays there are 40 certified virgins. Middleton sees the allure of innocence ("Virginity is paradise, locked up"), and his plays include some magnificent maidens. But in his world most men want a sexually experienced woman. "Desire," Middleton insisted, "is of both genders": women can be as lascivious...
Like the ghost in Harvard’s attic, Yale is making unfamiliar threatening noises, creaking the floorboards and moaning something that sounds a little like “McLeooooood.” The Crimson isn’t going to confront the specter until it has to, at the Yale Bowl...
...strict. We're young, and we don't have the money to travel that much, but we travel in our heads. We go online. With technology, you can go anywhere on the Internet." This season they found a trove of vintage kimonos in McCollough's parents' attic, and the trapezoidal sleeve shape became a major motif of their collection...