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...varied reasons for home sharing often depend on age. In a study of 105 home providers conducted at the University of Kansas Life 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under One Roof | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

Introduction to American Government—I think I’ll petition at the end of the summer to see if I can get credit from the government department for the many hours I’ve spent watching C-SPAN this summer. I think this all-politics, all-the-time channel gives students a much more realistic depiction of what the U.S. Congress is all about: gentlemen from Ohio with mops on their heads threatening to do the moon walk. Beam...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, | Title: Home Schooling | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

...Percentage of C-SPAN viewers who voted in the 2000 presidential election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jul. 29, 2002 | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...Millions of people who watch C-SPAN weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jul. 29, 2002 | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...months to complete. Other wounds will take longer to heal. Muslims and Croats still lead separate lives in Mostar, but the project does at least represent a small ray of hope. Emir Balic, 67, a diver who leapt more than 1,000 times from the top of the span into the shallow waters as part of an annual competition, says he now plans to do so one more time: "People will at least gather around the bridge and talk again," he says. "Time will help us reconcile." The new bridge has been designed as an exact replica of the span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Great Divide | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

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