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There's been a trade-off. By keeping the recession from turning into a depression, the bailouts kept millions of people from ruin. But this success may have made it impossible to fix what ailed the financial system in the first place, which could eventually bring ruin to even more millions. The future is uncertain, so there's a lot to be said for solving today's real problems rather than obsessing about tomorrow's hypothetical ones. The trouble is that they won't stay hypothetical forever...
...house to turn into a home for kids aging out of foster care. "You have all these spaces for teaching life skills before they try to make it on their own," says director Douglas Peterson. A restaurant-league kitchen, for example, can be used as a place to give cooking lessons. An industrial-size laundry room is large enough to handle a group lesson on separating whites...
...want to own overgrown houses in far-flung suburbs, we could see a repeat of what happened in center cities in the 1950s and '60s, when abandoned homes helped set off blight. What we really need to do, Leinberger says, is reinvent entire communities as the sorts of places where people want to live. That means building mass transit and urban-style city centers away from the metropolitan core. Finding new, creative uses for McMansions is a start, but the ultimate goal may be to design neighborhoods in which such large houses wouldn't make sense in the first place...
...Harris now uses those initials to sign autographs and identify himself on his voice mail. "He's extremely comfortable with who he is," says Harold & Kumar co-writer Jon Hurwitz. "He's not somebody who seems to have a lot of demons and is torn up inside about his place in the world...
This really raises some profound questions about the purpose of having books in the Dunster Library in the first place. For decoration? To permeate the hallowed room with an appropriately musty smell? For general authenticity, whatever that word means? Or, just so that the Dunster Library can be called....a library...