With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton’s “Zoom room” is nicer than most. So when Room Rater – a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures – gave it nine out of 10 last spring, Clinton took her disappointment to social media: “I’ll […]
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They spent months in lockdown as the pandemic raged. Still, they say it was not the worst of times.
Betty Gore, 96, was a teenager when she quit college to work on an assembly line making torpedoes. To this day, she recalls the World War II years as the darkest time of her life. Living through the pandemic during lockdown hasn’t been pleasant, but the sadness pales in comparison […]
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“The best money I ever spent was to make my Berlin apartment feel like home”
Over my first two years in Berlin, I moved house seven times and never owned a bed. Buying furniture takes time, money, or both, I reasoned, and moving with furniture is even more work. Instead, I hailed standard yellow cabs to shuttle me between sublets with my possessions in boxes, […]
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I Spent 35 Years Trying To Convince The World (And Myself) That I’m White
“Hey! It’s Bushroot! In the flesh!” These six words shattered the little world that I created for myself during my freshman year at Syracuse University. Up until that point, I had considered myself to be pretty much nailing the whole college thing as I adjusted to life eight hours away […]
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I haven’t spent Christmas with my family for 11 years
Shopping when it’s cold, streets twinkling with fairy lights, mince pies, the smell of cheap mulled wine in a pub, shop windows bathed in fake snow, midnight mass… there is nothing I don’t love about Christmas here in the UK. As someone who grew up in Brisbane, listening to Bing […]
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‘Everyone has different ideas of what feels safe to them during COVID’: How 4 college students spent an unprecedented fall semester
This summer, MarketWatch spoke to four college students as they prepared for a fall semester unlike any other. We recently checked back in to see how the pandemic has affected their studies and the way they’re thinking about their futures. The fall semester has been busy for Luz Chavez. The […]
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Lucky, stressed and ready to graduate: How 4 college students spent an unprecedented fall semester
This summer, MarketWatch spoke to four college students as they prepared for a fall semester unlike any other. We recently checked back in to see how the pandemic has affected their studies and the way they’re thinking about their futures. The fall semester has been busy for Luz Chavez. The […]
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Lucky, stressed, and ready to graduate — How 4 college students spent an unprecedented fall semester
This summer, MarketWatch spoke to four college students as they prepared for a fall semester unlike any other. We recently checked back in to see how the pandemic has affected their studies and the way they’re thinking about their futures. The fall semester has been busy for Luz Chavez. The […]
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Why this Virginia man spent days making an Alzheimer’s ‘busy box’ for a stranger
About a month ago, a post jumped out at him. “Are there any craftsmen here who would be willing to make a shallow cabinet for me so I can create a ‘busy box’ for my brother with Alzheimer’s?” it read. The poster, Sharon Elin of Mechanicsville, Va., near Richmond, explained […]
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Women Have Spent Trump’s Time In Office Building Political Power
Three days after Election Day in 2016, I got a message on Twitter from a new friend. She was having a handful of people over, mostly women, to sit and talk and process and — most importantly — make some plans to “try to stop the human rights apocalypse.” Did […]
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How downtime is spent in the PBA bubble
CLARK, Pampanga – While being on what is virtually a 10-week business trip appears to be a daunting task to here in the PBA Bubble, the amenities at the Quest Hotel have given many of the people here (competitors and staff alike) a multitude of opportunities to “get away from […]
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Penn State freshmen share why they spent more time decorating their dorm rooms amid coronavirus | University Park Campus | Penn State | Daily Collegian
Due to the ongoing global pandemic, many students are encouraged to stay in their homes and dorm rooms while attending classes online to ensure their safety. Some Penn State freshmen took more time to decorate their rooms due to the extra time they plan to spend at home this semester. […]