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Mithat Alagic lives with his wife and seven children in a one-bedroom apartment with walls blackened by soot from a wood stove. Alagic, 36, was groundskeeper for the Sarajevo football team for 15 years before the war, but has not worked since the fighting began. His family survives on dwindling supplies from the U.N. "It just isn't enough," he says. "All we get is some flour, rice and oil. The children are sick all the time." He supplements the U.N. rations with grasses, mostly broadleaf weeds from surrounding hills that look a little like cabbage but, according...
Shedroff lived with his mother, now a librarian at an elementary school, in a one-bedroom apartment in Berkeley, Calif., until he left for college. They were on welfare for his entire childhood, but despite the scarcity of money, Shedroff says his childhood was a nurturing one...
...image as a shy, decent man who likes old cars, black-and-white television sets and the Boston Red Sox. During the confirmation hearings, Souter, 51, slept on an extra bed at the apartment of his mentor, New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman; soon he will settle into a modest one-bedroom apartment that the Justice-to-be found, with Rudman's help, within walking distance of the court. Souter's few sticks of furniture and more numerous stacks of books will be trucked down by friends from Weare, N.H., after the Justice takes his oath of office this week. "Nearly...
...heavily in home decoration as well: a Rolf Sachs chair goes for $5,900, a chest of drawers by Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...
Alice concentrated on clothing, at her worst spending up to $20,000 a year on shoes and dresses. Lucy, 43, vice president of an import company, lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan but has enough household furnishings to equip several families. "I have three sets of dishes for twelve," she ticks off, "20 vases, tons of place mats, tablecloths and stemware, and three or four sets of pots...