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...here on the frontier, only the hardiest survive. And Paramount Academy is both figuratively and literally on the frontier. The school operates out of a handful of trailers at the edge of a cookie-cutter housing complex in Mesa, Ariz., a rugged desert city that sprouted into a Phoenix suburb two decades ago. But the academy sits on an ideological edge as well: Paramount is a charter school, a publicly funded enterprise that's privately run--in this case, primarily by a former shoe-repair-shop owner who never graduated from college--and free of the bureaucracy that bogs down...
Life has become richer for Kohli, 59, since he moved in 1994 to the sprawling Koramangala suburb of Bangalore, home to many of India's well-known technology companies. His disease had ended his career as a technical adviser to Contraves, a Swiss antiaircraft surveillance radar manufacturer. In India his illness is treated more matter-of-factly, and Kohli and his wife Teresa are able to affordably manage their bustling brood of five foster children, ranging in age from 2 to 14, with the help of a driver, a gardener and two maids...
Mention robotic surgery and people typically envision a C3P0 in pale green scrubs, leaning over and digitally intoning: "This won't hurt a bit." It's not quite as cool as that. The robot Gardiner uses at San Ramon Regional Medical Center, in a grassy suburb an hour outside of San Francisco, is a gray-and-black three-armed wonder connected to a console that doesn't have anything witty to say. It looks exactly like what it is: a machine. But by allowing doctors to access and see parts of the body as never before - without large, open incisions...
Ayisi Makatiani starts his day early, planning his next 14 hours as the sun rises outside his five-bedroom home in an upmarket suburb of Nairobi. In his plush, carpeted city office, the 34-year-old co-founder and ceo of Internet company Africa Online spends most of his time in meetings, answering e-mail from employees and colleagues around the world or talking on his mobile phone, pausing only occasionally to take in the stunning view of Nairobi 16 floors below. Like most cyber-ceos, Makatiani is in a constant hurry to stake out an ever-larger chunk...
...they would in a classroom. Often that means overlooking threadbare interiors or a family's less-than-scholarly choice of reading material. Jennifer Ching Moff, a third-grade teacher at Sacramento's Woodbine Elementary who has logged 220 visits since the beginning of the program, lives in a suburb and ordinarily would not spend her after-school hours in a ZIP code where her pupils reside. The visits have been humbling. One family owned little furniture and had to borrow some folding chairs for Moff's visit; others welcomed her with sodas and snacks they'd been saving...