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Fires that occur in the zone where suburban sprawl abuts rugged wild lands are known as intermix fires, and they are a fire fighter's nightmare. Vastly complicating the ability to protect property and lives are nonnatural hazards like narrow, twisting roads that dead-end in blind canyons or houses with cedar-shake roofs and logs stacked beside the kitchen door...
...lists. At Brookfield Farm in Amherst, Mass., which serves more than 500 Boston-area homes, shareholders are raising $150,000 to build a new barn. At Watershed, subscribers bring lawn chairs just to sit and watch, beaming like proud parents over the swath of farmland they have saved from suburban sprawl. And at Huasna, families bond over garlic-popping parties--sitting on the Skinners' porch, sorting cloves for next year's planting and swapping recipes. "We're not just selling stuff," says Jenn Skinner. "We've put our heart, soul and sweat into growing this food. We are connected...
...appealed the ruling, and a judge has temporarily suspended the original decision, delaying the removal of the crucifix until at least Nov. 19. In France, the case of the teenage sisters Lila and Alma Lévy-Omari - expelled last month from the Henri-Wallon public high school in suburban Paris for wearing their head scarves, or hijab - has refocused attention on a cultural fracture that began in the late 1980s. Critics claim that's when Islamic fundamentalists seized on head scarves as a symbol of women's affiliation with their hard-line beliefs; others say the hijab's prevalence...
...announced the formation of the program—which will focus on K-12 school districts in Boston, Chicago, Charleston, Minneapolis, San Diego, San Francisco and suburban areas in Maryland and Pennsylvania—last week. The districts’ enrollment totals about one million students...
...work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work force will observe Halloween in some fashion this year. "It's a release," Riddle says of the way people deck out their suburban yards, "a way to say, 'I can still act like...