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Here at Harvard, we love to complain about our barren dating-scene. The hopeless plight of the single, we hear again and again, is to suffer mortifying awkwardness or to remain forever alone. We are all familiar with the “is-this-a-date?” dinner at Border Café, and we can at least sympathize with those desperate folks in FM, caught mid-hookup with someone they probably did not know and wish they did not remember...
...hopelessly optimistic in this thinking. But at the same time, frigid temperatures may have provided just the push needed to get would-be couples past their gripping fear of contact. Harvard singles have a tough lot, and for their sake, I would gladly suffer a few more days of cold...
...sure, white-collar workers out of a job often suffer less, financially speaking, than do those with less income and training. Educated workers tend to be married to others like themselves, who often also hold jobs that come with health insurance. Many have savings, equity in a home or well-off parents. Their experience and contacts help them in their search for another high-paying job. And they can often afford to get more education for a new career. "If all else fails," says David Wyss, chief economist with Standard & Poor's, "there's always law school...
...tearing down two walls to add volume and connect it to the needs of the present. Says Veronica, a garden writer and renovation addict: "When you move into a house, you're moving into the lifestyle of that era. If it's a 1970s house, you will have to suffer the conversation pit. Our 1930s house was small. People's needs, desires and expectations were completely different than they...
...designer Stephen Fuller calls his take on this the "family studio." It might include a spot near the kitchen for dining, a space for a home office, a place for the kids to do homework or play, a music area and a media center. And the aesthetic doesn't suffer, says Fuller. "Because of improvements, inventive ideas, setting appliances into cabinetry, we can integrate all these activities into one continuing, flowing space that merges through to the kitchen." The disappearance of interior walls leaves you wondering just what's holding the house up (relax--new building materials have taken...