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Thomas Jefferson and the other early American crusaders for public education believed the schools would help sustain democracy by bringing everyone together to share values and learn a common history. In the little red brick schoolhouse, we would pursue both "democracy in education and education in democracy," as Stanford historian David Tyack gracefully puts it. Home schooling forsakes all that by defining education not as the pursuit of an entire community but as the work of one family and its chosen circle. Which can be great. Despite some drawbacks, there are signs that home-schooling parents are doing a better...
...seekers can now walk more than 1,500-- including about 400 built in the past year. Unlike mazes, which are designed to confuse, labyrinths have only one continuous path to the center. They can be carved out of cornfields or gardens, or made of wood, stone, painted brick or canvas. They are showing up in hospitals, parks, prisons and schools. Some couples are getting married within ceremonial labyrinths. A new outdoor labyrinth at New York City's Trinity Church, at the frenetic intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, is popular with traders from the nearby stock exchanges. A Washington artist...
Thorny bushes now crown the once grand brick towers of the ancient city of My Son. Carved into a crumbling temple wall, a stone warrior brandishes a sword, defying anyone to challenge the powerful Kingdom of Champa...
...more state intervention in the economy, law and order. I sometimes wonder if that is why, when Putin wanted to carry out a small covert operation of his own - an intensive series of interviews that led to his campaign biography early last year - he chose a large high-walled brick building on the edge of the city. A strange choice, you would think: It was in the same venue, on August 17 1991, that the coup leaders had convened to launch their operation. Those old men now live mostly in quiet retirement. One, former Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, recently turned...
...bottomed out, long-term interest rates have crept back up and brought mortgage rates with them, in spite of the Fed chairman?s rate-slashing leadership from the short-term side. And if refinancing slows down demand, home prices - especially at their present giddy heights - could drop like a brick. Bye bye, boom...