Word: householder
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...that segregates men from women in Afghanistan. In The Bookseller of Kabul, Norwegian journalist ?sne Seierstad describes herself as bi-gendered: free to circulate among men but also able to enter the welcoming?and asphyxiating?world of Afghan women. After covering the fall of the Taliban, Seierstad joins the household of an erudite bookseller for four months. She is drawn to Sultan Khan (a pseudonym) because of his encyclopedic knowledge of Afghan culture?she calls him "a history book on two feet"?and his valiant role in protecting the country's literature from the Taliban by secreting ancient texts behind...
...Faulknerian squalor. Why do they hate each other so much? What brought on the fall of the House of Cosey? And who (if anyone) killed Bill? Be forewarned: the story comes with some assembly required. We piece it together through the remembered narratives of the various members of the household, including Heed, Christine, L and Junior, a lusty, scheming teenage vixen "with a skirt short as underpants and no underpants at all," whom Heed hires to help out around the house. It emerges that Heed and Christine were childhood best friends but that when Cosey married Heed...
...have been invented as a way to network PCs, but it is turning into a boon for all sorts of household products. Wireless networks let you shuttle pictures, music and video from device to device, anywhere in the house--or even in the backyard. Best of all, you don't have to rip open walls and ceilings to hide cables. For your pleasure, here's a sampling of the latest crop of wireless appliances...
...number of well-paying jobs. I won't consider the economy to have improved until the number of people living in poverty actually drops. As it stands, Bush's tax cuts and sorry excuse for an economic policy have done nothing to help out my family's household. Elaine Matthew Minneapolis, Minn...
...senior investigator involved with the King Fahd Academy case told TIME. In May, police arrested an Arab man who moved from southern Germany to Bonn to send his children to the school. He was suspected of credit-card fraud, but while searching his apartment police found bomb-making instructions, household materials that could be used to make explosives, and a handwritten will. But Alfred Stoffel, the prosecutor handling the case, declined to press charges. "What we found wasn't sufficient to take to court," he says. The senior investigator dismisses Stoffel's decision, saying: "We believe we had concrete clues...