Can Tiny Apartments Save Dying Sub urbs? | Guatemala’s Hillary Clinton

As millennials flee costly U.S. cities, suburbs are starting to embrace micro apartments that offer urban facilities for less.

A three-story building made of brick, glass and metal, Amber on 11 offers tiny but smartly designed lofts and studios that could fit right into a cramped, downtown metropolitan landscape. The studios have an area ranging from 280 to 363 square feet and come equipped with an electric stovetop, refrigerator, dishwasher, air conditioner and hardwood floors. But Royal Oak, Michigan — home to Amber on 11 — is no bustling urban hub: It’s a 58,000-strong Detroit suburb.

Crowded urban settings, from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, have over the past decade increasingly embraced micro apartments — typically with an area less than 400 square feet, often much smaller — as an important housing option. But now these small living spaces the size of a school bus are beginning to sprout up in sprawling suburbia. They’re potential lifesavers for small communities that are starting to see an influx of millennials after decades of population drain, when youth left for bigger cities.

Naw Phaw Law Eh could set the standard for female fighters in Myanmar.

Naw Phaw Law Eh was only 16 when she left her family and moved to Yangon. She arrived in the hectic metropolis with little more than the nickname “Eh Eh,” given to her by her mother, and some judo gear.

Eh Eh migrated to join the judo program operated by the Myanmar Ministry of Sports. Now 25, she’s dedicating all of her energy to two very different combat sports: Lethwei, an undeniably brutal bare-knuckle sport that allows knees, elbows and even head-butts; and mixed martial arts (MMA), the mainstream sport popularized by the UFC.

She’s determined to conquer both.

Sandra Torres, a controversial moderate, is running a race with real ramifications for America’s immigration debate.

She's a former first lady known for her social programs for women and children, once married to a scandal-ridden president. She is left-leaning but moderate, promising to fight against elites yet also accused of being part of the clubby establishment. She has run twice before to become the first female president … of Guatemala, that is.

As American eyes look to Central America, it’s hard not to see parallels between the candidacies of Sandra Torres and Hillary Clinton in an election with huge ramifications for the U.S. immigration debate. Both faced glass ceilings and right-leaning foes, seeking to escape the shadows of their husbands and controversies of their own making. Like Clinton, the 64-year-old Torres is beloved by core supporters: She led a field of 19 candidates with 25 percent of Sunday’s vote, assuring her place in a winner-take-all runoff in August. Yet she inspires equally strong negativity as well. An April poll found that half of the voters vowed never to vote for her: Men (particularly the middle class and wealthy) resisted her the most.