Word: inners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sydneysiders take for granted an intimacy with nature that would astonish most city residents worldwide. Inner-city suburbs echo to the screech of sulfur-crested cockatoos and the laughter of sturdy kookaburras; brilliant rainbow lorikeets hang upside down in fruit trees squabbling over berries. As night falls, mighty Port Jackson fig trees discharge clouds of flying foxes, while possums patrol urban gardens and clatter across the rooftops. Everywhere, in parks, gardens, at the water's edge, the luxuriant subtropical vegetation-mosses and ferns, cabbage palms, ash and she-oak, ancient angophora forests and a hundred species of gum tree-reminds...
...lecture last night, Grogan focused on four major trends: increasing numbers of grassroots organizations, the rebirth of inner city businesses, the decline in crime and the reform of the welfare state...
...book argues that in spite of persistent poverty, America's inner cities have become livable, safe and business-friendly over the last two decades...
...American inner city is rebounding--not just here and there, not just cosmetically, but fundamentally," he writes in the book...
...Cross instructors are serious people, and I sense that they'd like me to stifle my inner class clown. But that's hard when we're watching instructional videos in which one bad actor plays a screaming fry cook who has been burned and another plays a man who carries a bunch of heavy stuff but refuses his co-worker's help. "That's O.K., I've got it," he says--right before tripping down a hill. (That's when we learned how to construct a sling...