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Today more than a dozen U.S. companies run some 250 for-profit public schools, with an enrollment of 120,000 students--there were no such classrooms a decade ago--and venture capitalists from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are eagerly pumping funds into educational start-ups. "We originally set out to raise $100 million," says financier Jeffrey Leeds, founder of one such fund. "But the demand [to invest] was so great that we raised our target to $250 million, and we intend to cap it at $300 million...
FAMOUS VINTAGE This week Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola will be honored by the European Wine Council in recognition of the output from his Napa Valley winery. But Coppola isn't the only celebrity oenophile wielding an oak barrel. Here, a tasting of a few other vanity vineyards...
Because Deep Springs is the only human habitation in a valley the size of Manhattan, quiet is easy to come by. Even a quick stroll can be an antidote to the relentless lack of privacy in the dorm where students spend all their time...
...takes a particular kind of person to appreciate the "immense amount of space" in the valley, as Wambsgans puts...
...just spectacular--you're just overwhelmed by the bigness of it," Erickson says. "I can still picture that valley in my mind, picture that skyline of mountains and know the names of all the springs flowing down in the gullies between the little hills...