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...usually takes an hour and a half was traversed in 30 minutes. The districts in the area were the source of some of the more fervent anti-government protesters after the country's disputed presidential election in June. But apparently, many residents - who are among the city's more affluent - took advantage of the beginning of a five-day holiday to book trips to tourist destinations such as Dubai, Istanbul or Iranian towns on the shores of the Caspian Sea, perhaps to avoid the violence that accompanied religious festivities in December. A travel agent said flights to Dubai had been...
...access to high-speed Internet, the show has become Tehran's "gotta have it" DVD item. (Certainly, nothing compares to it on Iranian state television, with its cooking shows and documentaries.) Today it is next to impossible to find a young person in the capital - be it in the affluent north of the city or the working-class south - who has not seen or at least heard of Lost. In some quarters, not knowing what Lost is, or worse, betraying a lack of interest in the program, invites scorn and ridicule. (See the top 10 episodes of Lost...
...quake has left thousands of orphans vulnerable to being preyed upon by child traffickers and those who perpetuate Haiti's shameful tradition of keeping child slaves, known as restaveks. Restavek in Creole means "to stay with," an innocuous term for a far more sinister practice: children "stay with" more affluent families as slaves, and like most slaves, they're usually subject to physical, emotional and sexual abuse...
...reason is that there is surprisingly little interaction between domestic and import customers. Import buyers tend to be younger, more affluent and better educated than their domestic counterparts, and shop at different dealerships. They shop for quality and value. Despite Ford's recent rise, its image hasn't yet caught up with its performance...
...other trend behind the Pew numbers is that marriage rates have declined most sharply among the least educated men and women, which helps explain why the median household income figures for married men have pulled even further ahead of those for their single counterparts. More of the least affluent are unmarried than before. (See the best business deals...