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...gentrifying areas at essentially the same frequency they left other neighborhoods. The real force behind the changing face of a gentrifying community, Freeman concluded, isn't displacement but succession. When people move away as part of normal neighborhood turnover, the people who move in are generally more affluent. Community advocates may argue that succession is just another form of exclusion - if low-income people can't afford to move in - but, still, it doesn't exactly fit the popular perception of individuals being forced from their homes...
...coils of barbed wire on a patch of grass have been tossed aside, and a group of school-age boys now play soccer in its midst; on the same street, a cluster of teenage girls stand, giggling together under a street lamp - which, miraculously, is working. By day, the affluent Karada district bustles with life. Old storefronts - their glass once blown out by explosions and now replaced - display grandiose chandeliers for sale, dripping in crystal...
...brand sites are too glitzy for their own good. Off-key efforts to replicate an in-store experience are usually overly reliant on Flash technology and needlessly saturated with music and videos. The result is sites that are slow, clunky, difficult to navigate - and potentially image-tarnishing. "Most online affluent shoppers don't want all that," Bracewell-Lewis says. Usually they're looking for a specific item or manufacturer and don't want to dig through layers of Flash images...
...City of Manila, one of Metro Manila's semi-autonomous municipalities, has engaged in a campaign against modern contraception. In 2000, Mayor Lito Atienza issued an order effectively banning birth control from city-funded clinics. Eight years and a new mayor later, the ban persists. The city's affluent minority buys birth control from private clinics or procures condoms on the sly, but poor women, like Bing, go without...
Thanks to the band's ubiquity and decency about rock stardom, Coldplay has nudged its way into a place alongside U2 and Radiohead in the holy trinity of bands that affluent adults consider good, good-hearted and worth breaking the bank to see in concert. But a small cult devoted to hating Coldplay has also arisen--which wouldn't be worth mentioning except that most of its members are music critics and their fury has a Lou Dobbs--on--immigration edge to it. To mark the release of 2005's X&Y, the New York Times' Jon Pareles declared, "Coldplay...