Word: cosmopolitanism
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...Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder If you're stranded in Bangalore, you won't go hungry. This southern city is rapidly becoming the wealthy, cosmopolitan face of India (even if the infrastructure and road system struggle to cope) and is blessed with scores of decent restaurants as a result, from swanky gourmet venues to trendy holes-in-the-wall. Its upwardly-mobile population is also adept at sniffing out good food and value - something that...
Mystery author Kate White's day job is to die for - she's the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the largest-selling women's magazine in the world. Yet she finds time to write delicious, best-selling novels as well. Her super-charged new mystery, ?Over Her Dead Body? (Warner), involves the murder of the temperamental editor of a celebrity gossip magazine. Galley Girl met White between deadlines at her office building in Manhattan...
...pariahs, like the poor Nicaraguan refugees who fill up the slums and ghettos outside the city limits. Only the “Nicas” have this one advantage: they are feared, and their poverty, their presence, is a constant, weighty shadow that creeps along the edges of cosmopolitan San Jose. They will not be forgotten as long as even taxi drivers, that typically fearless breed of city dweller, refuse to set foot in their ramshackle villages in broad daylight. Their festering humanity, heartrending as it is to the eye, has its virtue in visibility...
...Shanghai, once considered China's most progressive and cosmopolitan city, has fallen behind Peking, Canton and even Chongqing and Shenzhen in embracing the reforms. Shenzhen has set up more joint ventures (150, in contrast to Shanghai's 90), while Canton, one-third Shanghai's size, has more private enterprises (100,000 vs. 90,000). At this rate, Shanghai is in danger of losing its traditional role as the commercial and industrial hub of China. "There is an evident lack of creativity and drive," complains a middle-level city official. "We may have been safe and steady, but the pace...
...proprietary of frostbite. Any Sunbelt slur is returned with a blast of icy superiority. "Bear weather," they call it. A Midwesterner's notion of comfort is plainly more profound than climate, and it is his wisdom that few towns are as provincial as the ones that fancy themselves cosmopolitan. Chicago has no problem with newspaper headlines as dispassionate as GO BEARS...