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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School are expected to welcome new deans on July 1, and the president’s office in Mass. Hall is expected to have a new occupant by that time. Altshuler’s announcement is the latest sign that an older generation of Harvard leaders is handing the reins to a new one. At the start of this academic year, the president and the heads of Harvard’s nine faculties had a combined 58 years of experience in their present posts. At the beginning of the next academic year...
...bedroom and $113,200 for two. All residents chip in $150 a month for expenses, including maintenance and, when the common-house kitchen is completed, communal meals available to all. And everyone makes a commitment to help one another as they grow older...
...People 55 and older are at the beginning of a revolution to reinvent the kind of housing they want to live in for the rest of their lives," says Zev Paiss, 48, a co-founder of the Elder Cohousing Network in Boulder, Colo. "There have been no models before about how to grow old and stay in your home but be surrounded by a group of neighbors with a connection. This is something people are craving." Interest in the elder-cohousing movement is spreading. Charles Durrett, who brought the housing concept to the U.S. and is the author of Senior...
...worst part of middle school was the inevitable social awkwardness that all of us had to endure. You would think that this social uneasiness would pass as we grew older and gained more experience, but unfortunately, even at college our social experiences at parties are wrought with horrible awkwardness...
...nation of 100 million. His answer? Not all that much. TIME: What were the prevalent immigrant groups in 1915? Graham: By 1915 we were well into the period in which the main flows of immigrants were quite large. They were from different parts of Europe than the older immigrants such as the Irish, the Germans and the French. We began to receive heavy immigration in the 1890s and it was still running strong in 1915 from Eastern Europe, southern Italy - the fringes of Europe. The different source country was a part of the controversy at times. They were Lithuanians, they...