Word: habitat
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Still unsatsified, Frommer keeps bargain-hunting in the Habitat for Humanity donation bin, fashioning a corset from her finds...
...building plans simple, but the workers[an error occurred while processing this directive] are not what you might expect; it's a band of executives hailing from corporate heavies Whirlpool and Ikea, who've traveled to Romania from Italy and Sweden. The well-heeled workforce comes courtesy of Habitat for Humanity, a 30-year-old American-based charity that recruits volunteers to address the problem of poor housing in close to 100 countries. Initially, Habitat assigned volunteers to build simple housing in hard-up places. It issued inhabitants no-profit loans and mortgages and didn't try to build...
...teeming chaos of campus gradually resolves itself into a clearer set of courses, extracurriculars, and social organizations. Simply put, you will—hopefully—discover an interest, a way to pursue it and, like a well-behaved oil slick, spread out and be absorbed by your new habitat. But some people believe that this is not enough. By some mysterious consensus students seem to agree that Harvard lacks any sense of Community – a term written with a capital C and whispered with reverence – and that it needs to (somehow) create this panacea...
...half-hour to show up. For all practical purposes, the summer schedule yields no regular service to Mather or the Quad. Yet there is one time when the shuttle is needed most: Moving-in Period. The loads from CVS and Staples are the heaviest, the buys from the Habitat for Humanity “Stuff” sale are bulky. It is a time when the demands of several organizations—such as Crimson Key or the Peer Advising Program—are at their highest. Furthermore, students and their parents may need to run errands in the Square...
...adventure; he was more like them than their parents-buttoned-down folk who worked in offices or crafted rules to keep them in their box. Of course, Irwin offered an escape. And the messages he passed on, regardless of the means he used, were positive ones about preserving wildlife habitat and living with delight...