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...Clapham says. “They have many fewer resources than Harvard has, so I had to be more creative.”From the moment her plane touched down, Clapham was exposed to the unique Argentinian milieu. When she extended her hand to greet her post-doctoral lab partner, he replied, “I’ll let you get away with that this time, but in the future you’ll have to do the kiss on the cheek.” She also says she was pleasantly surprised by the spontaneity and communal nature...
...come back. Over the past six months, investors and first-time home buyers have moved in, snapping up homes now priced at less than $250,000. Residents are working to make sure the neighborhoods they traded up to remain desirable, getting together to mow lawns of bank-owned homes, partner with the police and draft ordinances to hold landlords accountable for disheveled properties. "We've just changed our mind-set," says resident Phillip Stark. "It's no longer what can the city do for me, but what can I do for the city...
...crime, it's the cover-up. In politics and in marriage, the old lesson applies. And this provocative new book makes a compelling case that financial infidelity--lying to your partner about how much you spend, secretly playing the stock market or piling up debts--can be just as damaging to a relationship as adultery. "The dangerous thing about financial infidelity," writes Weil, "is not the secret itself, but the act of conscious deception in a relationship." Weil, a psychologist in New York City with 30 years of experience counseling troubled couples, takes an uncompromising position: "There's no such...
...solution? Weil is a great believer in talking frankly about the problem. But some of her proposed conversations just don't sound real. For example, here's her suggestion for how a workaholic spouse should confront a partner about secret credit-card bills: "You must be so stressed and lonely. I know my working late nights and on weekends contributed to this, big time! I want to help you with a plan for the credit card debt that's accumulated, probably from your 'weariness.'" Words not likely to ever be spoken. But Weil argues persuasively that from the beginning...
...team emerged from anonymity in April to launch a sequel, Snatchbuckler's Second Chance. It's filmed in a fictional, virtual world called Peopleburg.com Snatchbuckler, Donnie's erstwhile partner in the online game World of Warcraft, has gone there to shake off his Internet addiction. The video debuted on MyDamnChannel.com in late April, and it looks pretty cool. But I miss Donnie and wish I could Photoshop him back into my life...