Making a living as an architect has never been an easy proposition. Very expensive schooling is generally followed by years of laboring under another architect for slave wages — all in the hopes that, one day, a devastatingly rich patron will fund the building of their dreams.
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Why Can’t My Clocks Keep Time Accurately?
In an era when millions of Americans are chained to computers, handcuffed to BlackBerrys and plugged into iPods, something as simple as knowing the current time should be easy. But here’s the snag: none of these devices ever seem to sync up with each other.
Marriage: For Worse, Then for Better
Just a few months before John Gottman, a leading American marriage researcher and psychologist, was to be married, his father died, leaving Gottman to contend with overwhelming loss during what should have been one of the happiest times of his life. No one would have blamed him for putting the wedding on hold
Next time you’re in … Laos
First-time visitors to this hamlet on the Nam Song River can be forgiven for feeling a little lost.
Box Office Weekend: Apatow’s Funny Peculiar
The new Judd Apatow movie carried the perky title Funny People, but audiences quickly figured out it should really be called The Guy Who Thinks He’s Gonna Die and Isn’t Very Nice. Or Funny. It managed a decent $8.7 million on opening day, dropped 15% on Saturday and is expected to finish the weekend at $23.4 million
Thirst: Why Vampires Beat Zombies
You’ve heard the propaganda: Zombies Are the New Vampires. Once relegated to back-list B movies like I Walked With a Zombie and Night of the Living Dead, those slow-moving, post-mortem drudges of West African mythic origin are now the hot horror creature
How the Housing Market Is Fighting Its Way Back
If you’d like to get a sense of how we’re emerging from our nationwide housing malaise, sit down at Jillian and Aaron Roberts’ kitchen table. As 2-year-old twins Lennon and Miles run by — those divots in the table are their doing — the couple explain that when they first started looking to become homeowners back in 2006, there was little they could afford
Is the Cash for Clunkers Program Working Too Well?
The government’s cash-for-clunkers program appears to be working like a charm, so — time to shut it down. Good old Washington! Offering rebates of up to $4,500 to folks trading in their gas guzzlers for new, more fuel-efficient cars, the program has been everything a stimulus package ought to be: a quick and efficient way to spur private-sector spending in support of a worthwhile civic goal. Congress put up $1 billion for the program, which it found under the sofa cushions in a room where they were meeting to discuss this year’s proposed $3.5 trillion budget.
A Brief History of Interns
Don’t look now, but they’re all around you. They’re standing by the copy machine, hovering by the printer, and answering the phone. Yes, they’re the overworked, underappreciated interns: young, eager, and not always paid.
‘Funny People’ Director Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow is working much harder on this article than I am. He wants to meet at 8 a.m., suggests six different events I can accompany him to and sends me more e-mails checking on my progress than my editor does.