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...Education One-room schools are standing their ground in the long battle against extinction. Vouchers start a controversy of their...
...nation, are making a modest comeback in the face of a long-running drive to wipe them out. Between 1960 and 1982, the number of public one roomers in the U.S. shriveled from 24,000 to 798. Reason: a push for consolidated districts in which pupils would be bused to big central schools with presumably better learning opportunities. Recently, however, parents and educators have been working to save the one-room public school. Montana has opened three new ones this year, and nationally the total has risen to about 835--for some sound reasons. (Private one roomers, mainly sectarian...
...tree-house designs of Bremen, Germany-based Baumraum architect Andreas Wenning are more modest in scale, but lean toward the avant garde (www.baum raum.de). A triangular construction, for example, suspended on steel ropes more than 8 m above ground between two beeches, is designed to resemble a ship. The one-room, 7-sq-m dwelling, on the grounds of a livery stable near Bremen, serves as the owner's weekend retreat. It boasts a glass-topped lookout, terrace and hatch-door entry, as well as heating and electricity. So if you have the urge to nest, look...
...tree-house designs of Bremen, Germany-based Baumraum architect Andreas Wenning are more modest in scale, but lean toward the avant garde (www.baumraum.de). A triangular construction, for example, suspended on steel ropes more than 8 m above ground between two beeches, is designed to resemble a ship. The one-room, 7-sq-m dwelling, on the grounds of a livery stable near Bremen, serves as the owner's weekend retreat. It boasts a glass-topped lookout, terrace and hatch-door entry, as well as heating and electricity. So if you have the urge to nest, look out for a suitable...
...million profit this year. Cemex plans to expand the program into Colombia, Venezuela, Egypt and the Philippines. Diega Chavero, 38, of Zapopan, Mexico, thought the scheme was a scam when she first heard of it, but after eight years of being unable to save enough to expand the one-room home where her family of six lived, she was willing to try anything. Four years later, she has five bedrooms. "Now I have a palace," she says. "This has changed our life." Not everyone agrees with Prahalad's theory that the lower classes will benefit from being part of mainstream...