Word: cosmopolitan
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...between white and minority households online growing by six percent. "This is a problem not only for the minorities who are missing out, this is a problem for the Web," says TIME technology writer Chris Taylor. "This makes the Web a whiter place, makes it country-club instead of cosmopolitan. And that betrays some of the Web?s promise...
...politics aside, however, Belfast is a pretty nifty place for the 20-something American college student (myself, for example). There are gobs of cosmopolitan student pubs at the center of town, serving up truly amazing amounts of alcohol seven days a week. There's a ten-screen megaplex just down the road offering unlimited movies all summer for the ridiculous price of $35.00. There's an internet cafe, great Indian food and the BBC broadcasting commercial-free 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...
...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...
...ultimately, the building, even in itscommercialized state, reflects the character ofHarvard Square as Cambridge has evolved from asmall-town city with local industries to the moreupscale cosmopolitan center that...