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The only Prairie-style house Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built in Ohio opened its doors to the public for the first time on Oct. 15 after undergoing a $5.8 million restoration.

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Francie Rehwald wanted her mountainside house to be environmentally friendly and to be "feminine," to have curves. "I'm a gal," says the 60-year-old retiree.

Her architect had an idea: Buy a junked 747 and cut it apart. Turn the wings into a roof, the nose into a meditation temple. Use the remaining scrap to build six more buildings, including a barn for rare animals. He made a sketch.

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Rebuilding any city is a complicated business. As soon as the flood waters began to subside in New Orleans, suggestions for what to do with a devastated city started coming from everywhere. Two local citizens suggest twenty points of entry.
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speaking of scams. some may know that schwarz was born in new orleans way back in 1955. my dad told me about the the "I bet i know where you got dem shoes" routine, so i was prepared when i was walking down the bowery one day and this guy came up and said "I bet i know where you got dem shoes."


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you never know whats in a factory sealed box. i know of several people who bought a factory wrapped brick in a sony box off the street here in nyc in the 80's. im sure that scam is still around and what they really bought was an invaluable life lesson for one hundred dollars which is cheep if you dont do it twice. buyer beware. check out this nasty factory wrapped shit from a new orleans metro blogger.


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yes, we are following fellow blogger Jim Louis's posted reports from new orleans on his email from nola blog.

we are also posting the digital photo e.mail attachments he's sending in. mostly images of his neighborhood in the fourth ward.


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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7 - Something once unimaginable has begun to happen here: the United Parcel Service is delivering again downtown. At Langenstein's grocery, celery and pork chops are moving out the door, and revelers spill out of the Magazine Street bars on Friday nights.


But just a mile away, workers are struggling to restore some flood protection to the city, which would barely stay dry in even a modest tropical storm. Tens of thousands of homeowners, facing six-figure repair bills for their rotting houses, are unlikely to get more than a fraction of that from the government. As phones ring in empty offices, even the shrimp business can barely find customers, and the economy remains comatose.

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Will New Orleans be granted a vastly strengthened flood protection system - at a cost of up to $20 billion - or will it be told to allow low-lying residential neighborhoods to return to marshland? Will the city have to take control of thousands of houses to restore them - at a cost that no one has calculated - or will it have to tell thousands of evacuated residents not to return?

Every major decision seems to rely on another decision that has to be made first, and no one has stepped in to announce what the city will do and break the cycle of uncertainty. Many residents and business owners will not return and invest without an assurance of flood protection, for example. But workers who could rebuild the levees and much of the rest of the city are hampered by the lack of housing.

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