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...1950s vintage designed to house the greatest number of people and to be built in the quickest possible time in response to a burgeoning city's housing crisis. He then photographed the tenants inside their cramped, 120-sq.-ft. (11 sq m)homes (according to an essay at the back of the book, Wolf describes them in his project's title as being 100 sq. ft. simply because it sounds more "poetic"). Shot over the course of four days, these documentary portraits chronicle the quirks and particularities of the estate's mainly elderly residents, and their personal effects - from wall...
...Short-term literacy and vocational programs, popular with donors, abound. As do school buildings up to the latest Western standards - some even have wheelchair-accessible ramps, in a country where there are few sidewalks and even fewer wheelchairs. Politicians back in the U.S. like to point to these projects as examples of taxpayer dollars being put to good use, and often cite the exponential number of girls in schools, some 2 million today compared to zero in 2001, as proof of success. But those schools are meaningless if there are no good teachers. In many rural parts of the country...
...herd of plump Devon cows to move to a grassy new paddock. Over the course of a year, his 100 cattle will rotate across 175 acres four or five times. "Conventional cattle raising is like mining," he says. "It's unsustainable, because you're just taking without putting anything back. But when you rotate cattle on grass, you change the equation. You put back more than you take." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...acknowledges that the cost-shaving measures have made some high school classrooms "look like lecture halls." They have also raised the potential for clashes between students from rival schools and neighborhoods suddenly thrown under the same roof; as a result 137 guidance counselors cut by Bobb were later hired back. Bobb had a similar change of heart after 20 piano teachers were dismissed. "You go back to your apartment and think, How can you have a school of music without a piano teacher?" Bobb says. So he hired them back too. Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Bobb's chief academic officer...
...seventh grade, kids are deciding what to buy and sell (profits help pay for college). Last year, for the first time, the eighth-grade class graduated with less than the original $20,000. Talk about a teachable moment: stocks don't always go up. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...