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...private homes, middle-class families watch American movies on smuggled videocassettes: Rambo--First Blood Part II is currently doing the rounds of Tehran's northern suburbs. Affluent Iranians eat at American-style fast-food restaurants, and despite the difficulties of getting an exit visa, even for an official fee of $500, many still vacation abroad. Says one Western diplomat in Tehran who has served in two East European capitals: "Things are a lot more open here than Eastern Europe...
...Cambridge decreased last year. The federal government’s limited definition of “chronically homeless” prevents some Cantabrigians from accessing the help they need. And poor individuals continually flock here from across the Greater Boston area, attracted by the perception that students, tourists, and affluent Harvard Square residents drop generous donations in panhandlers’ cups...
...Even our affluent United States will not be spared. When our children reach our age, South Florida and much of Louisiana will have already begun their submersion by the Gulf of Mexico, and hurricanes could have become a regular feature of East Coast living. We trivialize climate meltdown by referring to it as an environmental problem. It is an economic, public health, and human rights catastrophe. And unlike war that ends, and the plague that passes, climate meltdown is irreversible...
...Like Botox, another Hollywood trend has taken off among average, albeit affluent, Joes: the goody bag. Despite airlines reducing leg room and charging for food in economy class, three major carriers have introduced luxury goody bags for their first- and business-class passengers. Virgin Atlantic now gives upper-class customers on all flights a travel-accessories bag by Savile Row tailor Ozwald Boateng, which holds eponymously branded socks and either cuff links, a hand mirror or a key chain. Continental's U.S. transcontinental first-class passengers have received fragrances by Prada and Ghirardelli chocolates. Fliers in United's U.S transcontinental...
...while working for the New York Times, Lukas won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting, after he chronicled the life and murder of Linda Fitzpatrick, an affluent Connecticut teenager caught up in the hippie drug culture of the 1960s...