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...clean up clutter and tone down loud wall-paint colors. Then put away personal photos and other chotchkes (so the buyer can more easily imagine him or herself living there), and set up some flowers so the place smells nice and feels summery. Even if you're in a rush to cash in because you fear a looming bubble burst, staging experts argue that taking a few days to set up your home for display can mean a 5% to 10% difference in price, and can cut down the number of weeks a home sits on the market. When your...
...Cafeteria Crusader When Ann Cooper, Berkeley schools' director of nutrition services, sees the long lines in Berkeley High's cafeteria, she races behind a counter, grabs a pair of tongs and starts mixing made-to-order, all-organic salads. Only after the rush does she let herself gloat. "Yes!" she shouts, pounding her palm with her fist. "We had to have four people making salads, and there was no one waiting for pizza! This happened organically. I couldn't take their pizza away from them, but now they're doing it themselves...
...fire in the hospital; code blue is cardiac arrest. I was three weeks out of medical school, a brand new surgical intern (that is, a first-year resident) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, when my days and nights began to be punctuated by the heady rush of codes...
...Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest Even surgical residents used to the heady rush of "codes" occasionally encounter emergencies that throw them for a total loop
...ones we already have, but they need to be institutionalized, regular, and casual to be more effective.8. Calendar. It’s time that we aligned our calendar with that of the rest of the college (and real) world. There is no reason Harvard students should have to rush to start internships or work the first business day after exams end, or leave home on Jan. 2 while all of our friends relax for another week, or take exams in classes that we haven’t attended in over a month, or sit at home in late August while...