Word: metropolitane
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...Foreigners" have taken over. There are Brazilians buying condos, Frenchmen opening clubs, Nicaraguans selling TVs and washers, Italians building public rail systems. And the Cubans -- everywhere. Today half the population of Miami's Dade County -- a million people -- were born in a foreign country. Dade is the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. with a Hispanic majority. Nearly 60% of its residents speak a language other than English at home, mostly Spanish. In Miami even a deejay for the new Latin MTV channel must be fluent in two languages...
...multiethnic populations and new economic realities. "Miami today is a laboratory for the U.S. -- if not the Americas -- of a new kind of city in terms of international business and ethnicity," contends John Anderson, who serves as president of Miami's Beacon Council, an economic-development group. "Other large metropolitan areas will be dealing increasingly with the social and ethnic challenges we are dealing with today...
...biblical monotheism, which comfortably includes Judaism. Now, however, there is a major new player. Islam, the third great monotheistic faith, is expanding through both immigration and the conversion of African Americans and is bidding to supplant Judaism as America's second largest faith. In 1978 the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington became the first major interfaith organization to include Muslims alongside the Catholics, Protestants and Jews. It has since admitted Mormons and Sikhs; Hindus will probably be next. Other prospects: Buddhists, Baha...
...Verity Parris, a 55 year-old Cambridge resident and jogger, learned recently, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) paths are not always safe havens in a cruel world...
...People like to think Texas is very backwards,"Chen says. "Some of it is true. At our dances,they played country songs, too. They had anorganization called the Future Farmers of America.But Houston is a metropolitan city and it's verydiverse...