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...Pourzand's mother, Mehrangiz Kar, was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School this past year. In 2001, she was convicted and imprisoned in Iran for "acting against national security" after calling for constitutional reforms and secularization. Her husband, now in his 70s, is currently living under a loose form of house arrest in Tehran...
...send reminders about doctors' appointments and family functions.) Celery charges $13.98 a month to send and receive (color printouts of) e-mails - as well as Facebook and Twitter updates - via a fax machine, which costs $119 if you don't already own one. Presto - to which, full disclosure, my husband and I were early adopters, each of us having bought a machine for one of our grandmothers two-plus years ago - is basically a color printer that dials into a server to fetch both personal e-mails and subscriptions to free newsletters like Wolfgang Puck's Kitchen. The machine retails...
...unplugged population" has lost some important connections, especially the tradition of sitting around the family album sharing cherished memories. These e-mail services help fill in those gaps. Bellanca, for example, feeds her father's passion for photography by Sunnygramming him several pictures with notes each week. My husband's Gram, who has seven kids, 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, complains that she receives so many photos her Presto ink runs out too quickly. Which, we assume, is a problem most grandparents would be happy to have - no matter the delivery method...
...husband and I ran into the street. It was raining debris," she said in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. "My first instinct was that a plane went down. Debris was raining down like it was 9-11. I have house insulation in my parking...
...night, Aysar Jaber listens to her 11-year-old son scream in his sleep in the family's Phoenix apartment, plagued by nightmares about violence in his native Iraq. Jaber has nightmares of her own. Job applications have gone unanswered. Government assistance ran out months ago. Her husband found work washing dishes, but it's not enough. Each month, she pays $828 in rent for their two-bedroom apartment, then decides whether the family has money left over for soap. Nine months after her family resettled as refugees, Jaber, 41, said she worries constantly about eviction...