It's spring break in Anacostia, an impoverished section of southeast Washington, D. C, and Laura Matyas is barking out orders to a group of college students. "Who's on the glue crew?" she shouts. "Someone get that sprinkler out of the way." Matyas, a member of AmeriCorps—President Clinton's domestic Peace Corps—is supervising students who have opted to spend their spring break measuring, cutting, and installing drywall. By Memorial Day, the house they're working on will become the home of a low-income family.
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