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...business became more successful, Schiller opened a store in Brookline in the mid-1980s, later closing that branch to open another store on Newbury Street, in downtown Boston...
...home, a resplendent country estate on the outskirts of Kirkuk, on which he had spent his life's fortune. The Kurd, Mohammed Abdullah, had moved into the house after the fall of Kirkuk in April, his original home nearby having been destroyed by Saddam Hussein's regime in the mid-1980s. "I told him it is sacrilegious to take someone's home," Assi says of the recent encounter as he stands outside his family's downsized new abode in downtown Kirkuk. "Then I offered that I should live in my house and he could build a new one alongside...
Across the country, more than 50 Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) like this one at Lasell have opened their doors since the mid-1980s. The Kaplans are among thousands of seniors retiring to these college-affiliated communities. For many older Americans the desire to continue learning and growing intellectually still burns bright--some are even earning degrees after long and productive careers. And they're happily cracking open their nest eggs for a condo tucked inside the ivory tower. "People retiring these days want to stay sharp, and this kind of connection with a college is enormously attractive," says David...
...Hockey East, the best Eastern league—right now, at least—has its sought-after 10th team. And the ECAC, which has slipped competitively since the creation of Hockey East in the mid-1980s, is without the team that was expected to be one of the leaders in the league’s return to national prominence...
...This daily morning meditation, hosted by the graduate student sector of the Harvard Buddhist Community (HBC) and regularly offered since the mid-1980s, is part of a growing interest in Buddhism on campus and nationally. According to data collected in the American Religious Identification Survey, a study run by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the percentage of Americans who identified themselves as Buddhist doubled from 1990 to 2001 (0.23 percent to 0.53 percent). While a portion of these numbers comes from the immigrant Asian population, “there has also been a turn toward...