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...then photographed the tenants inside their cramped, 120-sq.-ft. (11 sq m)homes (according to an essay at the back of the book, Wolf describes them in his project's title as being 100 sq. ft. simply because it sounds more "poetic"). Shot over the course of four days, these documentary portraits chronicle the quirks and particularities of the estate's mainly elderly residents, and their personal effects - from wall calendars and bunk beds to rice cookers and TV sets - lend themselves to being pored over at length. (See 25 authentic Asian experiences...
...problem with using development funds for education is that results are difficult to quantify over short periods of time. Even with a state-of-the-art teacher-training college, something desperately needed in Afghanistan, it would take at least four years to see qualified instructors placed in rural schools. But there is another way to spend money on education that is quantifiable, sustainable and quickly effective. In the 1970s, the Soviet Union provided thousands of university scholarships annually to Afghan students. The only condition - set by the Afghan government - was that each of those students return to Afghanistan immediately upon...
...Ridge Shinn has the answer. On a wintry Saturday at his farm in Hardwick, Mass., he is out in his pastures encouraging a herd of plump Devon cows to move to a grassy new paddock. Over the course of a year, his 100 cattle will rotate across 175 acres four or five times. "Conventional cattle raising is like mining," he says. "It's unsustainable, because you're just taking without putting anything back. But when you rotate cattle on grass, you change the equation. You put back more than you take." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...system. In the past decade, the number of Detroit public-school students has plummeted from more than 167,000 to 84,600, mainly because of the emergence of charter schools and the middle class's exodus to the suburbs. It could fall further, to 65,000 in the next four years. Those trends, if they persist, will further erode revenues of a school system saddled with a $219 million budget deficit. So Bobb is trying to squeeze out the waste in the meantime, and he has built an investigative apparatus that has uncovered widespread corruption, including nearly 3,800 unauthorized...
...moves on into a shack, where a man has hanged himself. The archer notices the dead man's boots and appropriates them. He cooks himself a meal - fillet of feline - and feeds a morsel of it to a stray rat. Back on the road, he is set upon by four highwaymen. Out comes his sword, and in an instant, they are decapitated, eviscerated, kaput. Later he sees another gang abusing a woman but doesn't intervene. "Stay on the path," he tells himself. He is the superman as loner, able to survive in a hostile world because he's handy...