Word: livingness
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After I read the "the girl gap," I saw a television show about American mothers who throw expensive parties for their daughters. I don't know what scares me more - that there are extreme differences in living standards or that we view one of these extremes as a form of...
How or when the humble tuber followed the silver to Europe is unclear, but by the early 17th century the stage was set there for a vast expansionary phase in the potato's history. Despite being regularly denounced from pulpits because it was not mentioned in the Bible, this imported...
Wherever the potato has been adopted populations have boomed. In 1798 pioneering demographer Thomas Malthus complained that more food brings more mouths, and warned that the potato would depress wages and living standards by pushing Europe's population far beyond the opportunities of employment. What Malthus didn't know was...
“We want it to feel warm,” Ms. Brush said. “We want it to be the kind of feeling when you enter a friend’s kitchen or living room.”
Tope Lanre-Amos ’09, fresh out of an all-girls high school, came to Harvard with great expectations. Besides looking forward to living in the historic freshman yard and taking classes with renowned professors, Lanre-Amos had boys on her brain.