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...more modest entrance. Stairs are less about architectural flourish and more about getting upstairs (if you can imagine). That means they're either moving back up against the wall or turning into more-compact switchbacks. The two-story foyer is becoming less and less popular too - in an era of tighter purse strings, who wants to heat and cool all that empty space? "Would you rather have the extra volume or a game room upstairs?" asks Ken Gancarczyk, a senior vice president at KB Home who runs the Los Angeles-based builder's architecture group. Buyers, KB is finding, want...
...question for China's leaders was never whether to modernize - but how. During the Maoist era a variety of economic models were experimented with, each of which achieving some modicum of growth. Yet all of them left China lagging far behind the West and East Asia. The costs of some initiatives, like the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1960, were catastrophic in human and environmental terms. It was not until Deng and Chen Yun, another reform-minded Politburo member, returned to power in 1978 from internal exile that the economic course was changed. (See pictures of a new look...
Fears of spontaneous disintegration have grown in recent years. First, much of the country did, in fact, disappear after the 1991 communist collapse, only to reappear in the form of 14 independent, post-Soviet republics. Then came the Yeltsin era, with its newfound freedoms and widespread sense of dislocation. Then, in 2000, came the Putin era, in which state-orchestrated television stoked fears of a return to the Yeltsin era (lest the masses not entrust their president with lots of power). Then, in May 2008, came Dmitry Medvedev, causing many to fret that the new president would...
...many liberal Democrats, the USA Patriot Act and the state secrets privilege represent twin controversial monuments to the post-Sept. 11 secrecy of the Bush era. The Patriot Act, which Congress passed just weeks after al-Qaeda's attacks and reauthorized in 2006, created sweeping new powers for the federal government that some critics on the left, as well as some on the right, see as unnecessarily broad at best and unconstitutional at worst. And in court, the Bush Administration frequently invoked the state secrets privilege - the right to withhold information that compromises national security - to block civil litigation...
...Community at the University of Kentucky, Cross told TIME that "the idea that hatred for Barack Obama played any role in this is rank speculation and completely unwarranted at this juncture." Explains Cross: "Resistance to federal authority in the area dates back more than a century, to the era of major moonshine stills." And for nearly the past three decades, he says, "federal and state authorities have targeted pot growers in Clay and adjoining counties." It is currently marijuana-harvesting season, probably a particularly bad time to randomly knock on doors in Clay County...