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...Either way, parents shouldn't get too used to the echoing hallways, since the recession often means an empty nest won't stay empty for long. And when adult children come home to roost, says Cheryl Pickford, 54, who recently completed an empty-nest workshop in Adrian, Mich., "it's a totally different ball game." Boundaries rule. "If you're not good at saying no," says Caine, "gear...
...offhandedly that a son from a previous marriage quit school and was "trying to find himself." But Chu found his niche in the lab, building state-of-the-art lasers from spare parts to tinker with quarks and "high-Z hydrogen-like ions," preferring the rigor of experiments that either worked or didn't to abstract theoretical physics. At Bell Labs, he spent phone-monopoly money playing with electron spectrometers, gamma rays, polymers and other gee-whiz stuff few of us can understand; he once accidentally discovered an important pulse-propagation effect. But even his most obscure technical work...
...than a PowerPoint presentation; others have speculated the director would not have raised the alarm if it had not been operational. CIA spokesman George Little told TIME that the program "was, in fact, much more than a PowerPoint presentation." But that doesn't automatically mean it was fully operational, either...
...courses - either half- or full-day, with a maximum of 12 per class - are for aspiring Michelin chefs. The school caters for two different levels: experienced and beginner, and offers subjects from "traditional cuisine" to "pastry-making." Neither is Ducasse particularly concerned about luring customers through the door in these cash-strapped times. "People need a hobby, and cooking is a way to forget your worries," he says. "It's about the joy of giving yourself and others pleasure...
...Conservation measures are laudably thorough: materials are recycled or derived from sustainable sources, hot water is solar-powered, energy-saving devices are used and community projects supported. The cuisine served in the Zotz restaurant is vegetarian - and inventive enough to appease the most ardent of carnivores, with ingredients sourced either from the on-site gardens or local farmers...