Word: offing
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"The general public has the impression they all died out in the 1960s," says Michael Cummings, a University of Colorado, Denver, political scientist who has studied communes for 17 years. In fact, Cummings estimates, there are now tens of thousands of "intentional communities"--groups of people who reject conventional neighborhoods...
Behind the resurgent interest in such communities is a significant demographic shift. The average household in America is half the size it was at the start of the century. About a quarter of Americans live alone--and many of these are widowed, retired or both. There are also more single...
The founders of Southside Park Cohousing set out to prove they could create a village in the heart of a big city. Their block of pastel clapboard row houses blends smoothly into the surrounding neighborhood. Seven years ago, the block held only the burned-out ruins of 80-year-old...
"I had lived in a commune back in western Massachusetts in the 1970s," says Susan Scott, 52, one of the community's founders. "I thought it was a great way to raise children." But in the 1980s, Scott, like so many other flower children, took a right-hand turn. She...
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