Mrs Malini will use her son's death benefits to put a headstone on his grave and complete their half-built brick house.

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Imagine that your high-school junior spends half of every day at the brick-and-mortar school up the street.

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Half his building (at 9006 Yellow Brick Road, in an industrial park 30 minutes outside of Baltimore) operates in bingo-card black-and-white.

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With seven bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and three half bathrooms on four levels, the brick Neoclassical house served as the San Francisco Decorator Showcase in 1991 and again in 2012.

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In the Hasnabad area, where 750 Chowduli families live on the edge of ponds and canals, 40% of students don't show up to elementary school for half the year, teachers say, when their parents travel to work in brick kilns several miles away.

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They have a robot that competes in a two and a half minute game and then they start building with other materials, keeping the computer brick, the NXT Brick.

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The Old-World-style brick and stucco spread, a historical landmark, is situated on a rare half-acre-plus lot.

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