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...intellectual architect of the Iraq war, Wolfowitz more than anyone else gets the credit - and the blame - for the idea that the U.S. could in short order create a working democracy from a nation long stapled together by force and fear. That optimistic notion hasn't worked out so well...
...Vonnegut was born Indianapolis in 1922, the son of an architect. His early life shows the kind of aimless lateral peregrinations of someone who was in the process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful...
...Osisu's founder, Singh Intrachooto, 39, never intended to be a furniture designer, but his environmentalist scruples made him one. About a year and half ago, the M.I.T.-trained architect was dismayed to see a fleet of trucks turn up at one of his project sites every evening to haul away tons of rubbish. "I thought to myself, 'Wow, I'm building an energy-efficient building but I'm still producing a lot of waste,'" says Singh. He discovered that the garbage-including perfectly good plywood-was being incinerated, dumped in landfills or left by the roadside. Spurred into action...
...wartime India, en route to Britain from naval duty, British architect Laurie Baker met Mahatma Gandhi, who challenged him to return after the war to help house India's poor. In 1945, Baker did. Using mud, brick and other local materials, he engineered innovative, exuberant structures, many with pierced brick screens that dappled light and cooled rooms with natural air movement. Baker's low-cost, eco-friendly style, which became known as the "Baker method," inspired an organization of younger Indian architects that has, since the '80s, built homes for more than 10,000 poor families...
...architect, Martin Werminghausen, was speaking at a dinner discussion organized by Sustainable Allston, a subgroup of the Environmental Action Committee...