March 26, 2004
Courses They'd Like to See
At last, an institution of higher education is teaching something truly practical. Northampton College, in England, has offered free courses in assembling flat-pack furniture, the particle-board slabs made famous by the Swedish home-furnishings giant Ikea.
Anyone who has ever puzzled over those maddeningly abstruse pictographic instructions might be glad to turn to academe for help on this or life's other banal challenges. A few experts weighed in on the courses we might see if only
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