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Grace Kim refuses to own a car. But at least once a month, the Seattle architect drives 30 miles to the suburbs to visit her mother. If she's in the mood, she'll cruise out to the airport to pick up friends. Occasionally, she wants a car to lug home groceries in bulk or try a new restaurant across town. And when clients need to visit a building site, Kim is at the wheel...
...lived right next door. Alice A. Kleeman ‘73 hadn’t even known that men would be living in North House during the 1970 spring semester. But after intersession when she saw a scruffy national fencing champion moving in, she offered to help him lug his boxes of trophies upstairs. Tom Keller ‘71 was a junior, “the weirdest of the weirdos,” says Kleeman. She was his first-year antithesis, a self-labeled “Miss Priss...
Behold the Bambino. It looks like a watermelon and tastes like one too, but it's not the hulking mass you've had to lug home from the grocery store for the family picnic. And it took only 10 years to breed. The fruit typically weighs 4 lbs. to 6 lbs., about the size of a large cantaloupe. Seedless, it's sweeter than its larger cousin. The competition: Dulcinea Farms of Ladera Ranch, Calif., grows a similar breed called the Pureheart...
...ranging from a flat-screen TV to a mini-fridge-freezer to a papasan chair. "She needs to be able to relax," says Sheila. To that end, Rebecca will also have new video-game accessories plus her roommate's karaoke machine. In fact, Rebecca had so many things to lug to college that her family shuttled its massive van from Ohio to Princeton twice. And if she had it to do all over again, Rebecca would probably change only one thing: using a college-gift registry to avoid the kerfuffle of receiving six laundry hampers as off-to-college presents...
...executive from Hangzhou, a city two hours by car from Shanghai. Zhu has endured many blackouts in his office and home so far this year. Last month, he was about to send a time-sensitive e-mail to a client when the lights flickered off. Zhu was forced to lug his desktop computer to an Internet caf? in a neighboring district to get the message out in time. When he returned home that night, the power was off, rendering his new flat-screen TV and expensive air-conditioning unit inert. "My TV is just like a painting on the wall...