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...Span Institute, researchers R. Mark Mathews and Deborah Altus found that people 55 to 70 tended to value home sharing for its financial savings while the 70-and-older group prized the service and security. The older people wanted someone else in the home so that they would feel safer as well as get some help with chores. "One woman in her mid-70s, who'd applied for a housemate after her husband died, ended up having six different housemates over several years--all of them foreign students at a nearby university," says Mathews. "She helped them with their English...
...your child antsy for the 2002 X Games to start this week? You might want to develop some extreme-sports chops with these miniaturized, slightly safer versions of the big kids' equipment. We asked a small group of 4- to 10-year-olds for their "expert" views on three of the latest hot wheels...
Organic suppliers can't make special claims that their products are healthier or safer than conventionally grown food. Trace amounts of pesticides may well be found in organic foods because the chemicals are ubiquitous. And organic produce, just like standard produce, can be vulnerable to pathogens such as E. coli bacteria from manure or tainted water supplies...
...North Side, appeared fine at first, and at $585 a month was in her price range. "It was a relief to not have to duck when I walked by my own window," she says, referring to the stray gunfire that crackled through Cabrini after dark. Nearly anything would be safer than Cabrini, she reasoned. But just two months after she moved in, a vandal torched the building entryway. In the fire and smoke, all her possessions were lost. After enduring several days in a shelter, Berryman and her son squeezed into the three-bedroom apartment of her daughter Kizzy...
...first, what would stop others from doing the same to us? This could result in a downward spiral to death and destruction. This Bush doctrine, like some of his others (withdrawing from the ABM Treaty, development of a space-based missile-defense shield), will make the world not a safer place but a more dangerous one. DAVID ATWOOD Houston...