"In this village, there is no future for me and my children," says Navarro outside her family's modest, dirt-floor adobe home, explaining why she will soon risk the long journey north.
High in the Bronx, on a modest patch of dirt trucked in from New Jersey, a small but determined band of horticultural rebels is poised for a last stand against the State of New York.
The garden plot, consisting of 10 modest mounds of black dirt filled with squash, corn and bean seeds, is surrounded by plastic mesh to keep out deer.
"For a modest waterfront home, the dirt underneath, 2 to 10 acres, is by rule of thumb $1 million," said Hugh Smith of Coldwell Banker.
La Ceiba, Honduras AT a modest clinic down a dirt road, there are rocking chairs on the front porch and a hyperbaric chamber in the front room where Dr. Elmer Mejía treats deep-sea lobster divers who arrive paralyzed but walk out days later.
SAN JUAN BASIN, Colombia — Along the snaking waterways of the San Juan River, the village of Noanamá sits on a steep bluff with modest wooden houses and dirt streets giving way to a verdant expanse of jungle.
He could afford a Toyota truck and some jewelry for his wife, but they remained with their three children in a modest pink house along a dirt road in Ghazni.
Or maybe a New Holland.' Galotti's house sits at the edge of a dirt road - a modest 1847 farmhouse with green shutters and a green tin roof.
Rescue teams who arrived here were shocked to find block after block of modest houses reduced to piles of dirt and rubble.
Across the country, air park homes range from modest cottages with driveway access to dirt runways to 15,000-square-foot mansions with gargantuan garages or hangars that hold planes, cars and other big-boy toys.
