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...size more typical of an extra bedroom 40 years ago. In the low-mortgage-rate McMansions sprouting up throughout the country, every bedroom--not just the master--has the option of a walk-in closet. "The closet has typically been a forgotten space," says Michael Carson, founder of the National Closets Group, a trade organization. Now the closet is where the money is. The membership of Carson's group has seen total revenues swell from $15 million in 1999 to $100 million last year...
...economy. But any liberalization could lead to a loss of the absolute political control enjoyed by Kim. The dilemma is evident during a visit to the Kumsung Educational Institute. Boys recruited from around the country are learning English and computer skills beneath portraits of Kim and his father, state founder Kim Il Sung. In one class, students are studying Microsoft PowerPoint on Taiwanese computers, and 10-year-old Chun In Hyo shyly tells a visitor: "I will be a scientist." Down the hall, an older student poring over a Cambridge English text says he likes football star David Beckham...
...colored, kid-friendly kitchens. The students, many of whom are disabled or from disadvantaged backgrounds, get hands-on lessons in preparing everything from quiche to sweet and sour chicken. "We give kids the knowledge, know-how and skills they need to eat and live well," says the school's founder Fiona Hamilton-Fairley. "Children deserve that information...
...from 3% of players three years ago to 20% today. InterPoker.com reports that 10% of players a year ago were women. Today that number is at least 25%. "Women are the fastest-growing demographic of new players," says Maryann Morrison, publisher of the fledgling Woman Poker Player magazine and founder of the Women's Poker Club, a women-only site. Morrison estimates that about 35% of online players are now female, in part because of the rapid rise of all-female sites. Testifying to that hot new market are a slew of guidebooks by women for women. Among them: Annie...
Solar wi-fi is ideal for regions where electricity is scarce--from archaeological digs to disaster scenes, says Sally Lyon, co-founder of Boulder-based Lumin Innovative Products, which invented the system. Fellow founder and former Air Force engineer Ben Adams, who hatched the idea three years ago as he lugged a generator through the Nevada desert to hook up a communications system, is negotiating this month with U.S. and Australian forces to market solar wi-fi in Iraq. Each solar-paneled access point can relay wireless signals as far as 25 miles to other stations and can connect...