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...population has grown 11% in the past decade while rental stock has shrunk. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, which lobbies for government housing, for the fourth year in a row there isn't a single jurisdiction in the U.S., with the exception of places in Puerto Rico, where a person working full time for minimum wage can afford to rent a one-bedroom home at fair-market value...
Spanish TF Maritza Melendez Lopez, from Puerto Rico, adds a touch of the tropics to her outfits. French TF Mathilde Arnavon hails from Paris and London, bringing classic European style to Cambridge. Both agree that Harvard students could use a little help in the fashion department. Arnavon points out that Americans in general lack pizzazz. “In Paris, it’s a show,” she says. “If you’re on the metro and your outfit isn’t perfect, people will look at you funny...
Jarcho discovered the poem “The Highwayman” through her grandmother, who had won an award as a girl in Puerto Rico for reciting the text. Deciding that it would work well as a theater piece, Jarcho set to work. “I don’t consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman...
...every state allows do-it-yourself medical testing, but that may be changing. Matthew Schulze of the American Society for Clinical Pathology says 32 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, permitted some form of direct-access testing last year--up from 27 in 1999. In states that bar the practice, labs often get around the restrictions by retaining physicians to order the tests...
...Like shorts, sandals and bikinis, they disappear without trace once summer is over." Did anyone tell the fans? It's autumn now, and they're still buying the music. This month, the girls will tour the Americas - Asereje is No. 1 in Argentina, Mexico and Puerto Rico - and release their album in Britain. Later this year, Las Ketchup will try to prove that they're not just a one-hit wonder with a second single, Kusha las Payas. The song, which they wrote themselves, is only slightly more comprehensible than Asereje; kusha is another meaningless word, but a paya...