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Prospective elder-cohousing residents, attracted by newspaper ads or word of mouth, meet with a developer, architect, banks and other financing agencies before ground is broken to come up with a project to fit the personality of the group. They get to know one another through regular meetings as the project develops. Impatient or authoritarian types tend to drop out because it takes about two years to complete a project and all decisions and rules for the community are by consensus. New members can jump in at any time, even after the project is built, but must pledge to abide...
...negative side than on the positive side and that the answer was to cut the numbers back and come up with a system in which we selected immigrants that would be of the most use to America. That meant primarily the economy, but also immigrants who would fit in. In other words they recommended that immigration be controlled and the numbers come down and the principles of selection be changed. It was quite a turning point intellectually - nothing happened immediately, but it piqued the debate and put a governmental commission on the reform efforts of controlling immigration for the first...
Some places on earth are simply too big to photograph: the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall, Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Those monuments don't fit in any frame; they were made--by God or man--to overwhelm. You can visit them, snap some shots, but something is missing when you get back home. So how do you capture a country with 300 million independently minded and moving pieces? Who would even...
...rate, since TIME sees fit to accuse others of irresponsibility, it would have been nice if TIME's article had disclosed that its corporate parent has a financial interest in denouncing this research. TIME is owned by the same company that owns Time Warner Cable, a leading cable television carrier, and owns Cartoon Network, which is marketed to young children...
...once again found himself in a unique situation.The vast majority of college rowers are white, hailing from prestigious East Coast prep schools, Europe or Australia, and occasionally the American Midwest.Benkreira, a black oarsman who earned his rowing stripes at a public school program in urban Washington, D.C., hardly fit the typical billing.“My freshman year I was the only black kid in the boathouse,” he says.Once again, Benkreira was present at the forefront of change sweeping across his school’s crew program. There are now two black oarsmen on Harvard?...