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Krieger also moderated an informal debate between New Urbanism pioneer Andres Duany and noted Dutch architect Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and author of Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large, a book he describes as an "architectural novel...
Many people like the Shorts find their ideal retirement spot while traveling for pleasure. "If you spend three vacations in the same place, there's a good chance you'll retire there," says John Howells, author of books on retirement locations. That doesn't mean you're bound to where you've been. Advises Howells: "The most fun research you can do when you're planning to retire is take a trip somewhere...
This collection of interviews with inhabitants of the sexual fringe reads like an odd combination of a reporter's raw files and an undergraduate's paper. The strength here is that the author does dig up unquestionably fascinating subjects: vampires who drink one another's blood, necrophiliac morticians, people who claim to have been abducted and sexually molested by aliens, a married surgeon who sleeps with 10 women a month. But her writing style can be monotonous and self-conscious, and her need to place these people in cultural context and blame society for their freakish proclivities is trite. Still...
Philip Sprague and his wife Esther Sparks found the place a few years ago, while enduring a miserable Midwestern winter, after Sprague read that author John Grisham considered his hometown of Oxford a paradise on earth. "As soon as the ice-storm was over, I got in my car and drove south to Oxford and checked into a Holiday Inn," Philip says. "The moment I got into town, I said, 'Oh, my God. This is a movie...
...contrast to a high of 5 million in the 1920s. But the Klan added 36 new chapters last year, for a total of 163, according to the Montgomery, Ala.-based Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Similarly, the neo-Nazi National Alliance--headed by William Pierce, author of the race-war fantasy The Turner Diaries--grew by 13 chapters...