Ryan Runge, the president of Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies, who sold the couple their block-making machine, said the blocks are mold-proof and, when reinforced with rebar, earthquake-resistant. The walls are so thick that they retain heat in winter and remain cool enough in summer that air-conditioning isn’t necessary, at least on the first floor. “It’s…
Rasha AlMahroos thinks of her Thanksgiving table and chuckles: A big turkey sits in the center, and right next to it, as if hiding under its wing, a very small chicken. “My mother-in-law cannot get used to turkey, so she always stuffs a tiny chicken with hashweh,” said Ms. AlMahroos, a lawyer who was born…
For his first date with Elizabeth Comer, Dr. Denrick Kimathi Cooper Jr. had to ask his dad for a favor. “Unfortunately, I was broke, and had to ask my father for $20 for my first date with Liz,” he said. Dr. Cooper, 34, who was born in New York City and goes by his African…
“When you cannot plan things on your day off, it can break your morale,” said Edison Fraser, the transportation coordinator for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, a union that represents reservation agents for Southwest Airlines. Emirates, which employs 1,900 people to handle calls, says that the median wait time to get an…
Name: Flora Collins Age: 28 Hometown: Upper East Side Currently Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Claim to Fame: Ms. Collins’s first novel, “Nanny Dearest,” a psychological thriller loosely based on an unsettling “babysitter situation that my family had when I was a child,” was highlighted by Vogue as one of “the best…
A methodical approach to dating, an open-mindedness about baseball and a mutual appreciation for a wager. These were a few of the elements that led Petra Schaefer and Bruce Hunsaker to fall in love. In 2015, Ms. Schaefer, recently divorced for a second time and having consulted a dating coach, decided that finding love again…
Audrey Han and Dong Frank Han met in the summer of 2012 when they sat next to each other at an investment banking internship run by Morgan Stanley in New York. But despite sharing a last name, Ms. Han, then a sophomore at Harvard, and Mr. Han, a junior at Yale, did not share a…
In the 1970s, Ms. Pyun said, a Western-style track suit would have indicated that the wearer had some level of education, or lived in a major metropolitan area, where other Western clothing styles, including denim and miniskirts, began to replace more modest, traditional styles of dress. “With a school or company logo,” she said, a…
Although the scientific literature makes a compelling case that our pets are good for us in many ways, research into the effects of co-sleeping is more limited.
Most people spend their 20s living with roommates. A few cobble together enough to buy a starter home. Petra Ecclestone isn’t like most people. In 2011, when she was 22, the London-born Formula One racing heiress bought one of the largest houses in the United States — Spelling Manor in Los Angeles — for $85…