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...Center followed by step dancing at an Irish-American club. In a happy coincidence, the night’s activities matched Totman’s passions—she studied in Dublin last spring, and is interested in East Asian Studies—and provided plenty of conversation to buffer the inevitable on-camera, blind-date uneasiness...
...feel bad for the kids who grow up in luxurious homes like the ones in your story. Good luck to them as they adjust to sharing a bathroom with a bunch of people in a college dorm. As for parents who feel that they need a buffer zone from their children, maybe they shouldn't have kids in the first place. Americans ought to stop keeping up with the Joneses and instead own a modest home, live a debt-free lifestyle and get a dog. That's the plan my husband and I have. LISA GIASSA Bogota...
...pull back. "I love my children, and I spend enormous amounts of time with them--there is no escaping them," chuckles Veronica Fowler, a mother of three, who added a new master bedroom suite next to the expanded living room. "But there is [the idea of] creating a buffer zone. I desperately want a calm, clean, quiet place where I can go--maybe just for 15 minutes if I'm lucky--and read a book...
...NORTH & SOUTH KOREA Only Connect The two countries began work on reconnecting two railways across their sealed border, in a symbolic step that Seoul said would "lay a bridge of reconciliation." Ceremonies to mark the start of construction were held on both sides of the 4-km-wide, landmined buffer zone that has divided communist North and capitalist South since the Korean War ended in 1953. Kim Suk Soo, South Korea's Prime Minister-designate, said the rail links would allow the two Koreas to build a "single economic community," reviving the North's ailing economy and helping...
...Demakis has a well-established name and a reputation for success on issues such as creating buffer zones outside of health clinics that perform abortions and preventing Boston University from building a sailing pavilion on choice property along the Charles...