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...struggling to stay afloat financially. Married with two children, he and his wife used to make $3,000 a month. Now they rely on her $800 from Starbucks and their CalWORKs payment of $250. "It's not much, but it helps. We just barely make ends meet for rent and the bills. I am not sure how much longer we can go on like this," he says...
...family's Phoenix apartment, plagued by nightmares about violence in his native Iraq. Jaber has nightmares of her own. Job applications have gone unanswered. Government assistance ran out months ago. Her husband found work washing dishes, but it's not enough. Each month, she pays $828 in rent for their two-bedroom apartment, then decides whether the family has money left over for soap. Nine months after her family resettled as refugees, Jaber, 41, said she worries constantly about eviction...
Maverick chef and cooking-show host Bobby Chinn helped put the city on the culinary map with his eponymous French Quarter fusion restaurant. But when the rent was tripled to $45,000 a month last January, he packed up. The new digs, tel: (84-4) 3719 2460, are cramped, but fans will find the bordello red curtains, shisha-smoking rooms and irreverent menu essentially unchanged. Another French Quarter landmark forced to close was the perennially popular Emperor. The owners recently opened a fresh venture, the Mandarin, tel: (84-4) 3719 1168, on the banks of West Lake. Though...
...room. (If the scene looks familiar, you may remember it from the 1980 Jane Seymour-Christopher Reeve film Somewhere in Time, filmed at the hotel.) There are no cars allowed on the island, so you'll have to get around by foot, horse-drawn taxi or bicycle (available for rent at the hotel or on the island starting at $4 per hour; or bring your own on the ferry over). Right now the 122-year-old hotel - voted one of the world's best in 2009 by Travel & Leisure - has an early summer special of $249 including breakfast 1 Grand...
...unique opportunities for interacting with and learning from our peers, but it completely insulates us from the worries of everyday life. It is possible to graduate from Harvard never having cleaned a bathroom, never having cooked a meal, and never having had to look for an apartment or pay rent. All of these things are taken care of by the houses, and while the shared dining halls bring students together, and dorm crew prevents us from having to clean up after our disgusting roommates, the sorts of life skills that would be gained in the absence of these privileges...