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The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is "sustainable to the earth and its inhabitants in lands of extreme scarcity," especially in Africa and his native Burkina Faso, organizers said last week. "He is equally architect and servant, improving upon [...]
The return to classrooms for the nation's school children has not meant a return to work for many of their parents who, with workdays that outlast school days, are finding crucial after-school programs in short supply. School-based providers list difficulties hiring and retaining staff as the biggest reasons they have not fully rebounded from pandemic [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that a Mexican architect has been chosen as the first woman to design a wing at The Met, as the museum is known. The Met said in a statement that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has been selected to design the renovation of The [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the pandemic shut schools two years ago, Scott Losavio faced a problem afflicting students, administrators and communities everywhere: What happens when all the student volunteers disappear? As service coordinator at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, La., Losavio helps students fulfill the school's requirement to perform community service hours. Juniors must [...]
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — For nearly three months, Kristina Lemmon worked to restore the historic ceiling of an historic home here back to its former glory, and last month, the restoration artist was honored for her work. The local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave Lemmon a certificate for excellence in historic [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — A longtime area staple with its wagon wheel décor and "Roy Rogers ribeye," The Ranch Steak House is fighting to re-open as one of the last sit-down restaurants in the once-flourishing black Chicago neighborhood of Roseland. About 13 miles away near Indiana, Christopher Cain and wife Deja Cousins-Cain sought a new market [...]
In 1626, a ship foundered in stormy seas and wrecked on Cape Cod, where the passengers were aided by the local Indigenous population and the Pilgrims in nearby Plymouth. Now the most in-depth scientific analysis of timbers found more than 150 years ago has provided the best evidence yet that they belonged to the ill-fated [...]
OCEAN CITY, N.J. — Some warned that God will be angry if windmills mar the pristine horizon, and some claimed climate change either isn't real or isn't caused by human activity. Others said climate change is real, warning that humankind has to stop burning fossil fuels for energy, and some apologized for the "conspiratorial" comments [...]
Teachers have been working longer hours, they're more stressed out and many say they've considered quitting. Yet the vast majority of teachers have stayed in the profession throughout the pandemic, according to a Chalkbeat analysis of the latest data from a number of states and large school districts. Teacher resignation rates actually dipped after COVID [...]
DECKERS, Colo. (AP) — Dripping flaming fuel as they go, a line of workers slowly descends a steep, snow-covered hillside above central Colorado's South Platte River, torching piles of woody debris that erupt into flames shooting two stories high. It's winter in the Rocky Mountains, and fresh snow cover allowed the crew of 11 to [...]