Study Reveals Guide to Deter Homesickness

January 2, 2007

(AP) -- Janise Stone spent her first semester in college dreaming of home - literally. Stone, 18, would get up in the morning and grudgingly attend classes at Paine College in Augusta, Ga. But the minute she returned to her dormitory, she curled up and thought of family in Indianapolis as she slept the day away.

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