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...have to really try,” she said, and so I tried to touch her while she distracted me with all her touching. We grappled like that until finally I pinned her down by her wrists. She pressed her head back into the mattress and smiled at me, then spat at my face. I laughed, asked if she was serious, and then she called me a bitch and so I slapped...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Finagled | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...thought, Why not host people in our own apartment?" Gebbia said. "It was a way to make a few extra bucks to offset our already expensive rent." The guys had an extra bed, a sofa and an air mattress and decided to offer, via the conference's website, ad hoc bed-and-breakfast accommodations. Thus was born AirBnB.com They made $1,000 that week and were shocked to find that their customers weren't teenage slackers but were instead older folks, including a 45-year-old father of three. Said Gebbia: "It completely blew away our assumptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Internet Start-Up Boom: Get Rich Slow | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...practical perspective, of someone who has a huge pot of money and wants a safe haven, they just couldn't put it all in Norway," according to Thomas. "The economy's not set up to be a safe haven." Perhaps it's back to stashing cash under the mattress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Norwegian Krone Is the World's Safest Currency | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...keeping him up," says one of the school's social workers, Cheryl Flugaur-Levitt. "We discovered he'd been sleeping on a relative's floor, and he was scared to death about things crawling on him at night." So she went to work on getting him at least a mattress to sleep on until his family could find a more permanent home. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Homeless Kids in School | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...under housing prices is that this assumes that people who cannot afford a $500 a month mortgage payment can afford a payment of only $350. But in most cases this does not matter. As people turn away from debt and toward savings, a house is no longer a good mattress in which to store cash. Perhaps more to the point, with joblessness on the rise and many middle class household budgets built around two people working full-time, it does not take much bad luck to undermine a perfectly compassionate program which also pretends to have the power to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Mortgage Assistance Does Not Work | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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