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...patterns on the dining-room table--they're looking outside the home for guidance. Sewing clubs on high school and college campuses are flourishing, and there are even summer sewing camps and after-school classes for kids as young as 9. Some older newcomers are heading to chic urban sewing lounges for classes on making handbags, lingerie and cocktail dresses. Others are joining virtual sewing circles on the Internet, in which strangers exchange tips on the best hem styles and where to find inexpensive fabric. (Try Wal-Mart for prices starting at $6 a yard.) New books--such...
There’s another way to describe people who ‘go camping in the urban jungle’—and the word is “homeless.” That’s why it may have been baffling to see hundreds of perfectly well-housed men and women lounging around on Manhattan’s sidewalks in sleeping bags or tents last week. The prize was a Sony PlayStation 3, and the city was waiting. Just ask Angel Paredes who, according to the New York Times, spent three nights outside the Sony Plaza...
DIED. Robert Lockwood, 91, giant of Mississippi blues who, after learning guitar at age 11 from blues pioneer Robert Johnson, fused raw Delta chords, electric blues and urban funk; in Cleveland, Ohio. Teaming up in the 1940s with harmonica ace Sonny Boy Williamson, he made Arkansas radio's King Biscuit Time the most influential broadcast...
...Ancient Chinese Secrets Re "Breaking Up is Easy to Do" [Nov. 6], on the rising divorce rates in urban China: Divorce is not an exotic Western idea in China. The ancient Chinese lords discarded their wives and concubines to separate chambers when they fell out of grace. It was their form of divorce. But divorce is not an expression of freedom. It is an admission of having failed to properly choose a spouse. Successful marriages take more than personal effort and sacrifice. Husbands and wives must have values in common to get along and thrive, just as corporate cultures must...
...responsible for turning these urban docs into developing world saviors is Dr. Mark Kline, director of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI). An affable, Ed Harris look-alike, Kline is the mind, body and soul of BIPAI. He is responsible for creating the Pediatric AIDS Corps (PAC), an innovative, Peace Corps-like program for U.S. doctors interested in treating children with AIDS in the developing world, where over two million kids are currently living with...