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With all this practice, we’re damn good at applications. Two weeks ago at the writing courses introductory meeting, Professor Jorie Graham joked that Harvard students’ “greatest communal expertise is in filling out applications.” That’s good, because two months into next year’s fellowships, the lucky winners will have to start the application process all over again, this time from a foreign country...
...help preserve wilderness. In the republic of Yakutia in Russian Siberia, some 270,000 sq. mi. of arctic tundra are now off limits to all extractive industries except for the traditional hunting and fishing done by the Yakut people. In Ecuador the Awa people, after winning recognition as a communal federation, were given legal title in 1985 to almost 300,000 acres of Choco forest. Ten years later, despite pressure from logging companies, the Awa signed an agreement with the WWF designating 42,000 acres as a "life reserve" that will be kept uninhabited...
...talking about when we speak about aging and housing," says McNickle, "is long-term care. And home sharing is an option that brings in an informal support system, re-creating, in some cases, a family structure." Baby boomers may be the perfect candidates. "This is a generation that enjoyed communal living in the 1960s," says Robyn Stone, executive director of the Institute for the Future of Aging Services in Washington. "As they age, they may be perfectly amenable to living with non-family members--more so than the current aging population--if it means being able to stay in their...
...Paris, Galeries Lafayette has refurbished its food department, Lafayette Gourmet, to include not just Le Chênevert, but also Le Bar Rouge, a bistro with stainless steel communal tables and a blackboard menu offering grilled fish, sausages, salads and hearty soups. Not to be outdone, rival Le Printemps has introduced several new restaurants, including The World Bar, decorated by designer Paul Smith. "If there is a good restaurant, customers will stay and eat rather than leave the store," says Tim Zagat of Zagat Survey, which publishes a series of restaurant guidebooks...
...says. Springsteen is a lapsed Catholic, but whether he is telling Scialfa that he wants her backup vocals to be "more gospel" or asking his listeners to "come on up for the rising," he understands that spiritual revival is a necessity and that it has to be a communal experience. "I think that fits in with the concept of our band as a group of witnesses," he says. "That's one of our functions. We're here to testify to what we have seen." And to hear the testimony of others...