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Family connections. Kids grow up and change jobs and cities. One way to bring the entire family together more often is by living in a fun, familiar house in a great location. Buying while you still have children at home is a bonus. The kids will feel invested in the place, make friends and want to visit more often when they're older. Six years ago, Nancy Fernandez Mills, 59, and her husband Mark, 58, sold their house in the Boston suburbs. They bought a condo downtown and a country home in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. With three grown...
...nodding. But then Hemming began to talk about his unit's new rotation schedule, and its extended tours in Iraq, and the room became perceptibly tenser. Speaking more quickly out of what seemed like nervous determination, Hemming said extra time on the battlefield allowed his unit to become more familiar with the terrain. But the shorter-than-usual spells Stateside were inadequate. "Our time back at home is very limited," he said, adding that this put great stress on Marines' families...
...team wasted no time in showing off its new class of recruits, as freshman Katherine Kuzma scored the team's goal in a 1-1 tie in the season opener against tournament host Hartford on Friday night. Late in the game, the Crimson found itself in a position familiar from the 2006 campaign—on the losing end of a closely fought match. The Hawks had shown off their own impressive freshman in the first half, as Michelle Orelli beat standout sophomore goalie Lauren Mann to put Hartford up heading into the break. Kuzma scored off a corner kick...
Despite a jihadist uprising in the north, a political crisis in the capital, and rumors of war swirling all around, it's business as usual in Beirut's packed nightclubs. The good-looking people in this good-time town have long partied to a familiar soundtrack of popping champagne corks, clacking high heels and the generic beat of computer-generated dance music - whatever it takes to drown out the sound of Lebanon's continual crises. But for a relatively small number of Beirut hipsters, there's another soundtrack, evoking rather than denying the instability of their lives...
...fact that recognizing and acknowledging a familiar person is such a complex thing made it all the more remarkable in early August when scientists announced that a 38-year-old man had managed to pull it off. The man, whose identity was withheld, had suffered severe brain damage in a 1999 mugging and spent the past eight years in the dark cognitive well that neuroscientists call a minimally conscious state. Improbably, however, he can now greet both his parents. He can identify objects, hold very brief conversations and watch movies, and he recently recited the first 16 words...