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Montreal Townhouse This graystone is located in the city's trendy Plateau Mont-Royal district Will swap for: A three-week stay in Argentina Where it's listed: 1stHomeExchange.com, where it's free to list a home but costs $75 a year to contact members...
...annual fee that is usually less than $100, members can access thousands of listings for apartments, condos, villas, suburban homes and farms around the world. Initial contact is made through the sites via e-mail, with subsequent communication usually by phone. Before a match is made, potential swappers tend to talk a lot as part of a scoping-out phase that one exchange site likens to online dating...
...hard to beat free access to a washer and dryer and fully equipped kitchen, but swaps entail more planning than simply whipping out a credit card for a vacation package. Exchange seekers often contact dozens of people before they find someone willing and appropriate. For starters, location really matters. Kathleen Dwyer, a retired assistant principal who has been exchanging for six years, says she fielded lots of offers to swap when she posted her apartment in Manhattan. Now that she exchanges only her vacation home--an old sea captain's house in a fishing village in Nova Scotia--swapping inquiries...
...Zombies are what we feel like at our worst: slogging through a winter workday, standing in a long line at airport security, waking up with a hangover. Vampires speak to the romantic in us, to our need for human contact, teeth to neck. They embody everything erotic about the predatory impulse. Vampires glide through the night and, instead of breaking down your door like an angry zombie mob, they glide into your bedroom for a late-night tryst. They don't rip a victim's limbs off; they leave two decorous little puncture marks on the neck or breast...
Amid the turmoil is one almost paranoid bit of speculation: that the public brawl Ahmadinejad finds himself in is just part of the smoke and mirrors orchestrated by Khamenei or his protégés to lend Ahmadinejad more credibility. A political insider in contact with officials in the regime says Khamenei's second son, Mojtaba Khamenei - who holds substantial influence among the ruling clergy and is seen by many as being groomed to succeed the Supreme Leader - still firmly supports the President. "He needs Ahmadinejad around to give himself legitimacy," says the insider. "This is all just...