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Bryant is not your typical home buyer. She is very poor, and previously lived in a decrepit shack with openings large enough to allow animals to walk through. But Mockbee, 55, is not your average architect. A recent recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation and an architecture professor at nearby Auburn University, he is a man with a mission. Rural Studio finds people and communities in need of buildings and, using inexpensive and unusual materials, designs structures that are practical and affordable, but at the same time unconventionally beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama Modern | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...peddle their goods outside the cartel. De Beers now controls just 60% of the $7 billion market. This summer in London, De Beers all but acknowledged the end of its dominance; the company told its select group of 125 clients that it would no longer be the diamond producers' "buyer of last resort" and would begin to unload its $4 billion stockpile of surplus gems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gem Of A New Strategy | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...Bryant is not your typical home buyer. She is very poor, and previously lived in a decrepit shack with openings large enough to allow animals to walk through. But Mockbee, 55, is not your average architect. A recent recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation and an architecture professor at nearby Auburn University, he is a man with a mission. Rural Studio finds people and communities in need of buildings and, using inexpensive and unusual materials, designs structures that are practical and affordable, but at the same time unconventionally beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARCHITECTURE: Redneck Modern | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...Favreau and Officer Brian Spellman were standing outside Store 24 in the Square when they witnessed a marijuana sale within arms' reach. The drug dealer and buyer looked shocked when they ended up in handcuffs, Favreau remembers...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 24 Hours with HUPD | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...price of 6 swap points and got an offer the same day. I then used those points to snag a Tracy Chapman CD from someone else. The biggest drawback: because MrSwap sends out a stamped, padded mailer to the seller, who then has to remail it to the buyer, it took nearly two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wheeler Dealer | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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