Word: quilts
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...pattern? It's as genuine as Grandma's quilt. After a 10-year bender of gaudy dreams and godless consumerism, Americans are starting to trade down. They want to reduce their attachments to status symbols, fast-track careers and great expectations of Having It All. Upscale is out; downscale is in. Yuppies are an ancient civilization. Flaunting money is considered gauche: if you've got it, please keep it to yourself - or give some away...
...their services. Stephanie Soderblom of Mesa, Ariz., has a nontraditional and nondiscriminatory fee system. She asks $450 for a birth but will do payment plans, sliding scale and even barter for services. Says Soderblom: "I'll never do a birth for free, but I've done births for a quilt, a picture frame and even homemade cookies." Her payment philosophy comes from her experiences working with young, single mothers. "I didn't want these girls to feel as if they were charity cases," Soderblom says. "Everybody has something of value to give, and I asked them to think about what...
...current grid, the result of nearly a century of evolution, was developed to distribute electricity in an age when most production was run by states and provinces. Today a haphazard quilt of regimes governs transmission across thousands of miles of wire. Ontario, still contemplating deregulation, shares power with New York State, which is fully deregulated, and with Michigan, which is not. A huge transmission line from James Bay in northern Quebec can carry 2,000 MW of power south, but when the juice reaches the grid to New England, U.S. wires are capable of transmitting only 1,500 MW. "There...
...mother's rejection that wounds Laetitia most. "She is hiding it about my brother," she cries. "Why will she do nothing for me?" Her hands pick restlessly at the quilt covering her paper-thin frame. "I know my mother will not bury me properly. I know she will not take care of my kids when I am gone...
This fall, for example, the theme is community. Students will interview members of the community and make quilt squares about them...