Word: homely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Should you get sick, consider the advice of those who have come before you. Hayden Henshaw and his family, who suffered through the early days of the flu in Texas, talk most about the challenges of staying at home - as a family - for days on end. "It sounds real easy, but that's not the way it works," says his father. "I hated it when I was doing it," says Hayden. "I was inside for like three weeks straight." Stock up on games, movies, books and extreme levels of tolerance. Sometimes the gravest threats are the ones we know...
...realize. In her new book, Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter ... but Really Do (W.W. Norton), author Melinda Blau and Purdue psychology professor Karen Fingerman explore the meaning of these often overlooked ties. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Blau at her home in Northampton, Mass. (See TIME's list of the top 10 doctored photos...
...yoga class. You don't know them that well. You may not even have had lunch with them or had coffee with them, but you know all of them. They are the familiar signposts of our day. What I always say is that our intimates anchor us at home, but our consequential strangers make us feel grounded in the world...
...them because we stuff envelopes with them at a fundraiser. And so AA is very much like that. They're all there trying to heal, and you quickly get to a very, very deep level of exposure because you're talking about your personal life. But once you go home, you may speak with these people on the phone, you may meet them for coffee or brunch, but they're not part of your central core of intimates. Some may become so, of course. But all support groups have that in common...
...These recruiting trips have grown increasingly important as universities in Asia continue to draw more students from the region with scholarships and improving facilities. A report released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in July showed that East Asia and the Pacific have become home to more and more of the world’s university students over the past decades. In 1970, the region claimed 14 percent of students, while almost half of all students studied in the United States and Western Europe. In 2007, nearly a third of university students could be found in East...