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Even for those whose college days predated hippie communes, like Janet Carroo, 75, and her housemate, Betty Koontz, 79, the shared-housing arrangement can be life transforming. When Carroo asked the Center of Concern in Park Ridge, Ill., for a housemate shortly after her husband died, she never expected to find a new best friend. Both women are widows living on fixed incomes, but they have created a rich and energetic life together--going to church, sharing meals, visiting the elderly as volunteers and traveling together to see their grown children in Florida and Arizona. "We've become like sisters...
Riefenstahl turns 100 this week, having survived career changes, war and its aftermath, decades of political criticism and ill health. Friends will fête her at a birthday bash in Munich. The rest of us get some party favors too, with the release of Impressions Under Water, her first film since 1954, and the publication of Africa (Taschen; 564 pages), a book of photos taken over the past four decades. Her new work looks at sea life and Sudanese tribesmen, not ruddy-cheeked Nazi youth or Olympic sprinters, but it's still of a piece with the old: stunning...
...aviation nor in putting more cars on additional highways. My choice would be the oldest mode of the three: rail. It is not a sentimental or nostalgic choice. The aviation industry, like the vast infrastructure for cars, is dangerously overbuilt. In recent years aviation has sucked regional boosters into ill-conceived drives for more airports and more flights, even short ones - all at immense expense...
...bridges have collapsed, and chemical and paper plants along the Vltava and Elbe Rivers have ground to a halt. The country's GDP growth could slow this year by .3 to .5 percentage points as a result. A drop in tourism is something the Czech Republic can particularly ill-afford, since vacationing foreigners last year accounted for $3 billion in revenue - some 5.3% of GDP - according to the Czech Tourism Authority. "The situation in southern and northern Bohemia is a catastrophe," said Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda. Vladimir Zunt, spokesman for the town of Cesky Krumlov, described his city...
...cheated. These scoundrels fear most the loss of their liberty and their personal riches. Confidence in our financial markets will be restored when ceos and directors are charged with their crimes, convicted, photographed in shackles and sent to real prison. Convicted executives must also be stripped of their ill-gotten gains. Retrieved monies should be used to reimburse loyal employees who suffered losses in their 401(k) and pension plans because of their bosses' misdeeds. WILLIAM GOLDSTEIN Boca Raton...