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...views. Expert trekkers can make it in 12 hours, but it's more fun to spread the trip across two days, allowing for a night's rest under the stars. There are several organized treks from Darjeeling, and you can get a bed at the government-owned trekker's bungalow at Sandakphu; for more information contact the Tourist Bureau, tel: (91-354) 225 4050. The tourist brochures say you should visit in April or May, when the flowers are in bloom: locals claim there are over 600 varieties of orchid in the forests. (Warning: some are poisonous.) But unless...
...girlfriend Kaori on vacation at the coastal city of Okinawa. She's sensitive to smells and becomes overwhelmed by a powerful stench. Tadashi soon locates the source: a rotting fish with mechanical, insectoid legs that has crawled out of the sea and found its way into their bungalow...
...couple married in 1968 in New Delhi. Rajiv became a pilot for Indian Airlines and Sonia threw herself into running the house for her Prime Minister mother-in-law Indira, managing the servants and organizing receptions under the lemon trees behind Indira's colonial Lutyens bungalow. For 12 years, the couple enjoyed a life of easy privilege on the edge of India's first family, watching their children grow and, on Sonia's insistence, keeping a firm distance from public life...
...merchandisers, not élite architects, who would be the first to exploit the potential of prefab, though mostly in traditional styles--Tudor, Cape Cod, bungalow--that would have made Le Corbusier fall on his protractor. As early as 1906, the Aladdin Company was mailing out factory-made Readi-Cut house kits of precut, numbered pieces. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears Roebuck shipped out nearly 100,000 of its House by Mail kits. For a cost that varied between $650 and $2,500, the ambitious do-it-yourselfer received an avalanche of 30,000 pieces, including lumber, nails, shingles, windows, hardware...
...cramped, cluttered home of Gloria Tapia and Victor Hernandez sits half a block off the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles. The couple, illegal immigrants from Mexico who became U.S. citizens through an amnesty program, raised six American-born children in the city. Today their two-bedroom bungalow is home to 11 people representing three generations and is the hive of activity for the extended family. Here, each relative feels the absence of Jose Cesar Aparicio, a reservist serving in Iraq, in a different way. Gloria, 51, misses her son, her confidant. Of all her children, she says, Cesar...