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...Hale is an ideal laboratory for the studio's architectural experiment. This region of west-central Alabama is one of the poorest stretches in the nation. The writer James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans passed the summer of 1936 here while preparing their Depression-era classic "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." While prosperity has come to parts of this area, the region is still dotted with the shacks chronicled in Evans' haunting photographs...
Samuel Mockbee is eager to show off the buildings his Rural Studio has designed throughout Hale County, Ala. Driving his pickup truck, he barrels past catfish farms, abandoned barns and sleepy towns, pointing out houses and community structures along the way. Even the 100-degree temperature and nearly 100 percent humidity don't seem to slow him down. It is only when he reaches the hamlet of Mason's Bend and the home of Alberta Bryant that this bear of a man with a bushy graying beard slips into low gear and momentarily seems to surrender to the heat. Plopping...
...Rural Studio structures have transformed Hale County. Yet when Mockbee gazes across its undulating fields, he sees more work that needs to be done. "How deep can I take this? How far can we go?" he muses about his desire not only to try new experiments - like building with wax-impregnated cardboard - but also to further spread his ideas so that others might emulate them. "Most people say we are already on the edge," he says. "But I want to jump into the dark to see what happens and where we land. It won't be fatal. We are onto...
...HALE AND HEARTY Chalk up another one for women. A study of nearly 85,000 nurses shows that since 1980, coronary heart disease--the leading killer of women in the U.S.--has plummeted 30%. The decline is mostly attributable to better diet: women are eating less red meat and fewer high-fat dairy products while chowing down on more of the good stuff, like fiber. The fact that more of them have kicked the smoking habit helps too. That's not to say the battle is over. Doctors report that if obesity were licked, heart disease would drop even further...
Realistically, the older generation should have a written succession plan by the time they are in their 50s, especially if adult children have been working in the business, says Michael Fay, senior partner and estate-planning attorney with the law firm Hale and Dorr in Boston. The plan should offer guidelines for the transfer of ownership if one member of the family wants to sell his shares. This usually involves a right of approval by the remaining owners coupled with a right of refusal to buy out a sibling or other family member before a portion of the business...