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...dreary. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a brilliant and relentless husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, are devoting their lives to convincing Americans that when it comes to neighborhoods and towns, they can make 'em like they used to. Kentlands, a new town in the suburban Maryland countryside outside Washington, is the couple's most ambitious project to get under way. Streets are narrow; houses are close to one another and to the street; materials and basic styles are reassuringly traditional. With any luck, in Kentlands the early 21st century will be the good old days...
...dreary. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a brilliant and relentless husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, are devoting their lives to convincing Americans that when it comes to neighborhoods and towns, they can make 'em like they used to. Kentlands, a new town in the suburban Maryland countryside outside Washington, is the couple's most ambitious project to get under way. Streets are narrow; houses are close to one another and to the street; materials and basic styles are reassuringly traditional. With any luck, in Kentlands the early 21st century will be the good old days...
Although Michigan's tough approach has few defenders, a majority of voters strongly endorse the notion that states should compel those on public relief to meet certain requirements in exchange for being supported. A proposal under consideration in Maryland is typical: welfare mothers could lose 30% of their benefits if they do not pay rent, make sure their children are immunized against diseases and keep them in school. The budgetary crises facing the states will accelerate the trend...
...Georgia was supported by a tax, and under the state's first constitution, only Protestants were allowed to sit in the legislature. When the Bill of Rights took effect, five of the 13 states had government-sponsored churches, and most schools were church-run. For literally centuries, until 1961, Maryland required officeholders to declare their belief in God. The problem is that as the nation's religious life grew more varied and its public life more complex, it became nearly impossible to uphold both constitutional principles -- free exercise and nonestablishment -- with equal consistency...
Last year's champion St. Mary's (Maryland), University of Michigan, Stanford, Princeton, and others competed...