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Earn money with your smartphone: five apps that pay

Here’s a sure-fire way to earn a little pocket money. Use your smartphone to snap a photo of a restaurant or scan a barcode in a store. You can earn cash or gift certificates. Companies pay for such information, often because they want to know how their stores and products look in the real world. Here are five free smartphone apps that can earn you money.
In Pictures: Long may it wave: Flag Day 2011
In Pictures: Moshe Safdie: Architecture designed for dignity
In Pictures: Unusual architecture
In Pictures: George Steinbrenner through the years

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Father of 'less is more' architecture (+video)

The steel-and-glass Google Doodle structure is an homage to German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mies was an advocate of simplicity and open floor plans.
Mysterious booms shaking dishes, and nerves, in Wisconsin city

Residents of Clintonville, 40 miles west of Green Bay, have been kept awake this week by a flurry of underground booms. Engineers are looking for the source, but it may never be known.
Designing for disaster

How the need for security leads to enhanced public spaces.
Remembering the audacity of the twin towers

The soaring twin towers of the World Trade Center became an affirmation of the American value of dreaming big. To the engineer who designed them, their loss on 9/11 remains heartbreaking, but he's found the resilience to keep dreaming.
Genius of Place

Frederick Law Olmsted – a man of strange and restless talent – dreamed of making a better, greener world accessible to all.
Earn money with your smartphone: five apps that pay

Here’s a sure-fire way to earn a little pocket money. Use your smartphone to snap a photo of a restaurant or scan a barcode in a store. You can earn cash or gift certificates. Companies pay for such information, often because they want to know how their stores and products look in the real world. Here are five free smartphone apps that can earn you money.
In Pictures: Long may it wave: Flag Day 2011
In Pictures: Moshe Safdie: Architecture designed for dignity
In Pictures: Unusual architecture
In Pictures: George Steinbrenner through the years
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Ayn Rand move over: In Pune, India, shantytown residents 'design by consensus.'

Two Stockholm-based architects visited with shantytown residents in Pune, India, last year to build lower-income homes based on 'design by consensus.' What would Ayn Rand think?
Tips for planning a beautiful yard

A well-planned landscape can increase your home's beauty and its sale price.
Airline safety: The next generation of smart planes

New ways of handling air traffic, including 3-D infrared upfront, may cut delays and improve airline safety.
Orlando shooting comes as trend in workplace violence drops

Orlando shooting follows other incidents, including Ft. Hood. But the trend is downward in recent years due to new workplace protections and policies.
An invitation to climb higher

A gardener's grassy steppingstones lead to a green oasis.
Diggin' It
Garden siteseeing in California

Great garden blogs in California
U.S. scraps ambitious clean-coal power plant

Citing high costs of FutureGen, the Energy Department funds less ambitious projects.
U.S. scraps ambitious clean-coal power plant

Citing high costs of FutureGen, the Energy Department funds less ambitious projects.