Word: downtowners
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...have some svelte friends who could learn a lot from your article "Can You Be Fat & Healthy?" Unfortunately, they are downtown drinking and chain smoking. Meanwhile, I am enjoying an evening with TIME, resting up from 45 miles of weekend cycling. I may wear larger-size clothes than some, but my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are low. We need much more reporting on the issue of health as opposed to thinness...
...existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history?illustrated in gold and indigo?of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There...
...Bihar five times as dense as that over Los Angeles. It's not a place where you'll find many tourists, and certainly not somewhere you'd expect a center of scholarly excellence. So the existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion...
...place that's preparing these young Americans for life in their own country, "from crayons to college," as its slogan promises, is the Universal School, an Islamic institution teaching 638 students in pre-K through 12th grades in Bridgeview, Ill. The suburb, 16 miles southwest of Chicago's downtown Loop, lies in the heart of one of the U.S.'s largest Arab communities, where an estimated 25,000 Islamic residents pursue an uneasy assimilation into secular, suburban life. The school's goal is to give its students such a solid grounding in their religion and education that they will...
...We’ve been advocating for a long time to remove parking on North Harvard Street,” says Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association, who says that suburban commuters park there and walk to Harvard Square to take the T downtown, leaving few spaces for Allston residents themselves...