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...neglected one simple??way to help curb emissions: don't drink bottled water. Think of all those millions of plastic bottles. Most municipal water in the U.S. is safe and can be made palatable with inexpensive filters. The water is transported to its final destination largely using gravity, which creates no emissions. And the feel-good factor? A friend of mine figured that over the course of a year she saved almost $1,000--enough to take herself on an environmentally friendly vacation...
...American dream of homeownership used to have relatively simple??requirements: a 20% down payment and a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. Not anymore. For today's first-time home buyers, financing has become far more creative, complex and confusing. Faced with record-high real estate prices, new buyers are turning to so-called specialty mortgages designed to make homeownership possible even with a checkered credit history and little or no down payment. Specialty loans used to represent only about 3% of the mortgage market, but a survey by the Federal Reserve shows that they now account for more than...
Allen, perhaps idealistically, believes that in the end, the commitments we must make to one another come down to something that simple???if we have a little luck. "Each of us is so finely tuned that to have two people meet and then intermesh is a matter of luck. I've had friends who when they marry say, 'I know we're going to have to work at it.' I always think they're wrong. The things that are really pleasurable in life, whether it's playing Softball or working on your stamp collection, really require no effort...
...contrast, is a chainsmoking, disorganized, hot-tempered bundle of emotional energy from one of Quebec's poorest farming regions. His manner is shy and self-deprecating. While Trudeau's speeches are structured and formal, Lévesque's are extemporaneous, meandering marvels that somehow manage to reduce complex abstractions to simple???often too simple???terms. He is extraordinarily popular with his constituents; polls show that Lévesque would be overwhelmingly re-elected today...
...lesson of Love Story's incredible success lies in its ties to romanticism, in its simple???and simple-minded?refusal to swing, in its ability to entertain. That it seems to herald a return to old-fashioned film making is not necessarily bad news for new film makers. In a dying industry, there is no room for anyone; in a boom town, everybody works. Love Story can only bring grief if it is treated like a new I Sound of Music, the film that was responsible for such trendy megaton disasters as Sweet Charity, On a Clear Day and Paint...