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...tiny one-room lean-tos where teeming families live shoulder to shoulder in spaces that double as hole-in-the-wall shops, goat sheds or miniature factories producing dyes, glues and shiny tin boxes. It just doesn't seem possible. "Look at this place," he says. "Look how they adapt...
...movie, the divide leads to revolution. In real life, Kapur says, Dharavi will somehow adapt to its unpromising future. In reality, he adds, Bombay's rich are not nasty, but they have too little contact with the poor to understand their plight. "Over there," he says, indicating the high-rises, "they believe toilet paper is soft and beautiful. Here, they know it's to wipe yourself." Money can blind as well as dazzle, he's saying. Sometimes it just gets in the way. And he would know...
...sometimes inconsistent scoring totals this season—she entered the weekend averaging 12 points per game, but has had several 20-point efforts—are due principally, Delaney-Smith said, to her superb ability to adapt to game conditions...
...Your History campaign to explore the American past through the “lens of black intellectuals whose thoughts have shaped the political, social, and cultural landscape of America to this day.” It sought to actively engage with the intellectual tradition of our forebears and constructively adapt their better ideas and strategies to a new 21st century global order. On this final day of Black History Month, the question remains: What is the future of blacks in America? I assert that it is through the influence of hip hop culture that our society will progress towards racial...