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...downturn has left more families than ever before in need of financial aid, the difficulty of the paperwork that financial-aid applications require has reached an unnecessary high. In times like these, it is disheartening that the current Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form poses a major barrier to many potential applicants who need financial aid the most. With more than 100 questions, the current form—which, ironically enough, was created in the early 1990s in an effort to streamline the financial-aid process—seems excessive and inefficiently constructed. Its length and complexity...
...than-genuine sentiments, such as the desire to arouse jealousy in exes and single friends and the need for attention. Such motives, which would be decried as narcissistic in face-to-face conversation, somehow become socially acceptable when affirmed in the impersonal space of the Internet, where the safe barrier of the computer screen, and the absence of fact-checkers, separates the poster from the viewer and reality from fiction. The pervasive force of modern voyeurism—the fact that we can know intimate details about a person’s life and relationships without ever interacting with them...
...time to reconsider - cruises are getting cheaper and more enticing by the day. Holland America Line, for one, is ginning up new itineraries throughout the Southern Hemisphere aboard the 1,432-passenger Volendam, including a 34-day circumnavigation of Australia, departing March 14, with stops at the Great Barrier Reef and 18 ports of call. Fares start...
...past, one of the biggest challenges tradespeople faced was a psychological barrier that kept consumers out of the repair shop: I will not stoop so low as to squeeze more life out of these musty shoes or this old dress. That feeling still exists. An Indianapolis publishing executive named Pat, who just took four suit jackets in for restoration, asked that her last name not be printed because "it's nobody's business that I'm recycling clothing." But the economic realities eventually prevail. Pat was looking to extend her wardrobe when she chose between new and used. "Should...
...personal inhibitions.This seamless melding of contrasting personalities and viewpoints is also manifest in the film’s varied dialogue of English, German, and Japanese. To communicate with each other, Rudi and Yu must abandon their native tongues and speak English, thereby intimating that language is no communication barrier for this ostensibly odd couple. What is fascinating about this burgeoning friendship between a homeless Japanese girl and an aging German man is that the relationship transcends labels—it is neither sexual nor paternal. Instead, these two are spiritual partners in life, sharing a mutual obligation to help each...