Word: decays
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...getting people to hit the pavement is more than just a health concern. As urban sprawl sends development - and money - farther from downtown, municipalities are looking to combat inner-city decay by keeping the streets flush with pedestrians. In Portland, that means implementing pilot projects such as an artist-designed public restroom in Old Town Chinatown. Many people still regard such municipal facilities as germ-ridden no-go zones or the grotty province of drug dealers and criminals. Regaining confidence in public restrooms would remove one obstacle to renewing the vibrancy of urban centers...
...located in one of the side streets in Kala Ghoda, a vibrant sliver of private art galleries, museums and restaurants in the city's Fort district. Don't be put off by the street-level façade, which was wooden until recently but is now, because of decay, being concreted over...
...Where does that all that leave us? None of the new studies contradict each other or the previous literature, although the idea that migraines might somehow prevent against cognitive decay is new. "I certainly think this is going to help as far as people coming up with new theories," Kalaydjian says. All three new studies offer researchers something of value, but none, unfortunately, will bring immediate clarity on how to understand - or how to treat - migraines...
...anyone should be blamed, it’s your parents. Maybe if they hadn’t taken those four years in the Peace Corps, you would have been born before a Bush was president. You could have been a student at Harvard before the time of moral decay: Condoms, alas, can now be found in freshmen dorms and a there is an alcohol-serving bar on campus. There’s even talk of co-ed dorm rooms. What would Increase Mather think...
...fashionable these days to speak of the death of Europe. And Dutch journalist Geert Mak's new history of Europe's 20th century begins with a scene from a picturesque European village in 1999. It's a place he finds filled with endings, loss and decay. "The storks had left by now. Their nests lay silent and empty atop the chimneys. The summer was in afterglow, the mayor sweated as he cut back the municipal grass." If that doesn't evoke expiration, consider that the mayor is cutting the grass with a scythe...