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...have equipment or don’t have equipment here.” The group hopes to own a set of equipment that could be borrowed as a band gets on its feet. CARAR says it recognizes that the real difficulty is in cornering the funds to purchase communal amps and a drum kit. Their solution here is once again networking; if the younger musicians are all friends with their elders, the hopeful logic follows, they will be able to borrow the necessary equipment.Still, loaned is never as safe as bought. Whether or not fostering a community leads to more...
...space, slated to open next fall, is intended as a solution to the space squeeze faced by student groups. Forty-five thousand square feet on the top three floors of the library will become the locus of student groups. The College plans to build office space as well as communal spaces where groups can hold meetings or just hang out.With Hilles complete, even more space will open. Thirty-seven student groups now have their headquarters in the basements of freshman dorms. When these groups move to Hilles, the once-dungeon-like offices can become low-key social spaces...
Forrest and Marie have offered their home to the Meehan-Hoos indefinitely. Jan, who had a job at a nursing home in Louisiana, and Yolanda, a paramedic, hope to find new jobs nearby. Until they get settled, communal living provides learning experiences for everyone, even Forrest. "The other day I heard them arguing with each other in the stairway. It proves to me that same-sex couples are just as miserable as the rest of us," says King, laughing, as his wife and the Meehan-Hoos shake their heads in exasperation, like family. --With reporting by Amanda Bower / San Francisco
...than the rest of the country, where elegance met an indefinable wildness to encourage the flowering of creative intelligence. Whites, Creoles and Negroes were strained, steamed and stewed in a thick, sticky, below-sea-level bowl of musky gumbo. These people produced an original cuisine, an original architecture, vibrant communal ceremonies and an original art form: jazz...
...fastest-growing search techniques is tagging, a grassroots phenomenon whereby users label websites with descriptive tags, building a network of knowledge dubbed folksonomy--a taxonomy of knowledge organized by ordinary folk. Yahoo! was quick to spot this trend, and in March bought Flickr, a photo website organized with a communal tagging model. Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo!'s technology director, says the company wants to apply search across all its user-created content. The tagline? "Better search through people...