Used properly, mud can be a free and durable building material that will stand for generations, while offering a sort of natural air conditioning. And when reinforced with sand, clay, or cement, mud ...

A group of mud-covered Wayland students drew some curious stares from people driving down Superior Street last week. While it may have looked like the students were playing in the mud instead of ...

WAYLAND -- Breanna Hupp stomped barefoot in a mud pit, mixing the dirt and water to just the right consistency -- not too thick and not too runny. As Hupp, a Wayland High School senior, marched in the ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkar/local-wkar-914200.mp3 OKEMOS, MI – In the backyard of an Okemos home is the beginning of a 16th century ...

I constructed a mud hut with a natural thatched roof. Combining walls and roofing created a durable, weather-resistant ...

Indra Tamang, who grew up in a mud hut in rural Nepal, now owns two apartments at one of New York City’s best-known addresses, after the wealthy family he worked for bequeathed them to him. Tamang, 57 ...

I built a palm thatched mud hut and learned why it failed. Exposure to weather and weak material caused structural issues.

Kenya celebrated Madaraka Day this month, 52 years after the Union Jack was lowered at Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi. The ‘mahewa generation’, the breed that never experienced the Nyayo presidency, might not ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARRIOR, KIRKUK, Iraq- The school children in the village of Chemin in Kirkuk province, Iraq, have always known the small mud house on the outskirts of their village as their ...

Editor's note: Randy Shilts wrote the article reprinted below for the October 5, 1987 edition of The Chronicle. This was the beginning of the war on AIDS, and Shilts was one of the first war ...

Wang Desheng said his earliest memory is of two shabby huts made of mud, reeds and straw. It's where he lived with his parents and three siblings in the Xiangyang people's commune in Nanjing's Jiangpu ...