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...power generators. There's not a bikini in sight on the city's sunny shoreline or a parked Porsche in the chic shopping district. Few Lebanese saw it coming. After this country's 15-year civil war ended in 1990, the nation transformed itself from a byword for urban violence into the nightlife capital of the Middle East. Elites who had fled during the war poured back in, pumping billions of dollars into the redevelopment of downtown Beirut. The rebranding of the city was so successful that with every condominium high-rise and every new shopping mall, the Lebanese began...
Month after month the name Hebron was the byword for a seemingly unsolvable diplomatic dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Hebron: the last major Palestinian city under complete Israeli occupation, a status that was originally supposed to end last March, if only the two sides could agree on the terms for self-rule. Last week, just when it looked as if they might, the name Hebron reclaimed its place as shorthand for bloodlust and mayhem...
...poor Superdome victims highlighted on national television. Instead, chances are that cronyism and corruption will line the pockets of well-connected businessmen and officials. The government has a proven inability to manage and oversee spending (just think about the Big Dig), and Louisiana—a byword for political corruption—is probably the last place in America that should get billions of no-strings-attached dollars. This is the state that ranked third in per capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi was first.) Friends of the Bush administration are already salivating at the sight...
...fact, safe sex has become the byword in gay communities. The cover of the last issue of the Advocate, the national gay newsmagazine, was emblazoned with the headline SAFE SEX GUIDELINES THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE. Following those guidelines, many gays are for the first time using condoms and avoiding the exchange of body fluids, the most likely way that the virus can be passed from one person to another. Condom machines, once considered almost laughable among homosexuals, have been installed in the rest rooms of many gay bars and restaurants. "Straights learned about birth control, and gays have...
...first back-to-backs were completed in 1802. Consisting of three rooms, one above another, they were built around a central courtyard and each housed upward of 10 people. They became a byword for squalor until 1966 when they were finally declared unfit for habitation. Their rehabilitation began in 1988 when they were listed as historical monuments, and restoration of 54 Inge Street was initiated by the Birmingham Conservation Trust...