Word: tracts
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...combination of wealth and a dominant regional style (plus, says Merchell, "a certain amount of keeping up with the Joneses") led to a flurry of Modernist-home construction that lasted into the '60s, and a parallel boom in Modernist public buildings and tract houses. The style fell out of favor in the '70s, and Palm Springs suffered a two-decade recession, from which it has only recently emerged. In 1997 a developer's threat to demolish Tramway Gas sparked a preservation movement and in turn a rush to snap up and restore the area's stock...
Such battles reflect the subsurface tensions that make Spaces addictive. For all the talk about the democratization of design--via Martha Stewart, Michael Graves, the Apple iMac--in tract-house America, fluorescent light panels and hastily bought throw pillows are still doing just fine. When the show's hip, urban designers invade the homes of their more conservative charges, it's Karim Rashid meets Laura Ashley, State and Main with slipcovers. A traditional how-to show says your home is an expression of your personality. Trading Spaces says your home is an expression of your personality--and not everybody likes...
...Taiwanese with the creepy feeling that the environment is crawling with electronic eyes. A recent survey found that more than 40% of Taiwanese women won't use public toilets because they fear hidden cameras; nearly all of these women say delaying micturition has resulted in urinary tract infections. To ease concern, some police departments have been ordered to conduct twice-weekly sweeps of restrooms. Authorities have been flooded with so many phone calls from people convinced they are being taped that the government is holding "how-to" seminars on the de-bugging of homes and offices. Taipei-based...
...clears her throat, it's straight to the Cystic Fibrosis section of the "Mother's Guide to Life-Threatening Conditions That Your Child Almost Certainly Has" book on my shelves. I usually work back from CF, through lung cancer, pneumonia, asthma, pertussis, bronchitis, and finally, good old upper respiratory tract infection, which is what a cold gets called these days. Is this some weird corollary to the whooping cough rule - the less scary the disease, the scarier the name? I've even had my baby tested for anthrax. She didn't have it, even though we live mere blocks from...
...rats outperformed a control group at such tasks as navigating mazes and balancing on rotating logs. And when aging rats ate a blueberry-enriched diet for four months, they performed as well in memory tests as younger rats. Another blueberry benefit: like cranberries, they seem to fight off urinary-tract infections by preventing E. coli bacteria from adhering to the bladder wall...