Word: busyness
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The influx of kids - and of their parents' disposable incomes - helped foster new businesses. In 2005, Ramón González opened what would be the third tattoo parlor on the then bustling Pi y Maragall Avenue. Business boomed. Students, "Citroën workers and the kids of Citro...
Blue-Collar Blues The crisis has hurt 20-somethings without college degrees even more. In Vigo's unemployment office, people of all ages and backgrounds come by to get the stamp that allows them to receive unemployment payments, but it's hard not to miss the heavy predominance of blue...
But even some of those who back the ban think the government is taking it too far. In Istanbul's busy waterfront Tophane district, popular for its nargile - or water pipe - cafés, dozens of patrons sit on candy-colored beanbags, puffing on glass pipes, impervious to the impending...
For the man in the street, Sherbini provides an easy outlet for Egyptian frustration - a distraction, some say, from the more serious abuses of an authoritarian regime. "The whole thing is just stupid. But it's convenient," says popular blogger Mahmoud Salem. "It's an opportunity to have fake outrage...
Ben and Andrew have been friends since college, but now that they're in their 30s, that friendship has become mostly a fond memory, now close to dormancy. Ben (Mark Duplass) has been busy making a life for himself in Seattle, acquiring a steady job, a house and a wife...