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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principal American evangelists for cohousing--a type of intentional community in which buildings are designed to encourage social contact while preserving private space. "You have the choice between privacy and community," Durrett says. "It's a 21st century housing solution." Instant converts Scott, Mandel and a few dozen like-minded families set about designing the ideal community...
Five years later, they got their dream, the 25-unit Southside Park Cohousing. Front porches on the neo-Victorians look out on the surrounding community. Inside, kitchen windows and plate-glass back doors face one another over the common green space, as if two dozen families had one huge backyard. In the central building, residents share a dining room, playroom, mailboxes, laundry room, TV, exercise equipment and a lounge with a fireplace. They take turns cooking the three common meals served each week. Afterward, they relish the opportunity to share cars, swap furniture and get together without planning...
...walled off, while the victims' families try to raise the money to replace it by building a new one. The students still have trouble with fire drills. Some report that kids are drinking more heavily now, saying more prayers, seeing more counselors--550 visits so far this year. Two dozen students are homebound, unable, whether physically or emotionally, to come back to class yet. Tour-bus groups have changed their routes to stop at the high school, and stare...
...designed jeeps have finally worn out, and the Marines decided that the Mercedes Gelandewagen best meets its need for a rugged off-road vehicle small enough to fit into helicopters. Most of the 62 vehicles have been sent to bases in California and North Carolina, and the final dozen will be delivered to Marines in Okinawa in time for Christmas...
Director of the Trust Karen E. Avery '87 met with two dozen students in a "town meeting"-style format, also featuring Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, Acting Dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study Mary Maples Dunn and Lewis' Special Assistant Julia...