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Aside from offering a way to live a less encumbered life?free of additional mortgages, maintenance headaches, endless repair costs and cluttered closets?leasing is becoming an ideal way to stay on top of trends and styles, particularly when it comes to cars, fashion and sports equipment. At Aspen's Snowmass resort, for example, 60% of visitors during the past holiday season rented skis from the facility's ski shop, up from 45% eight years ago. Most of these skiers, says Derek Johnson, managing director of rental retail, now invest in custom boots and bindings but prefer to lease their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leasing Life | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...According to the National Sleep Foundation, college-age students should be sleeping between seven and nine hours each night. Sleep is vital as it allows the body to physically repair tissues as well as effectively process thoughts and memories. In order for these processes to work frequently and effectively, sleep must be regularly scheduled and tied somewhat to the patterns of natural light; varying sleeping and waking times by more than two hours a night—the nearly universal practice of sleeping in on weekends—can lead to clinical anxiety issues...

Author: By Paul G. Nauert | Title: Our Most Neglected Extracurricular | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

Musk and Carmack represent the opposite extremes of the business. Musk already has a working business, operating SpaceX since 2002 out of a warren of old repair shops and warehouses in El Segundo, Calif., an area with a long aerospace history. He plans to move soon to nearby Hawthorne, into a cavernous plant that once turned out 747s. He has set aside half of his $200 million PayPal payout and has hired close to 250 people, from such outfits as Boeing and Grumman as well as from Silicon Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Cowboys | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...hand. “You can still see broken glass and blood on the sidewalk,” said Brettman. After calling 911, Brettman was rushed to the Mt. Auburn Hospital emergency room where she received ten stitches. She is scheduled for surgery today for nerve and tendon repair. “I’m really mad, but I’m also really clumsy, so I guess I have no one to blame but myself,” said Brettman, who said she was informed by doctors that she could suffer permanent damage to her hand. Raffi Hovagimian...

Author: By Rachel M. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Slip, Slide On Slick Sidewalks | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...conflict erupted between freshman Cambridge City Councillor Craig A. Kelley and the rest of the council during yesterday’s meeting, after a discussion of pothole repair gave way to a critique of Kelley’s administrative approach. Councillors assailed Kelley for his tendency to request longer, more quantitative reports from City Manager Robert W. Healy than do the rest of his peers. The council spends a portion of each weekly meeting discussing reports from the city manager, who is responsible for implementing policy initiatives that the council promulgates. Last night’s tussle began during discussion...

Author: By William M. Goldsmith and Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Councillors Argue at Session | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

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