Word: metropolitane
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...began handing out ) grants to local charities based on indicators of poverty and unemployment levels. The first installment of $576,665 (out of a total pool estimated at $15 million to $20 million) will go to agencies in the 15 least populous states, including Utah, Maine and the Dakotas. Metropolitan areas, where hunger and homelessness are most acute, can expect help through the winter. Ken Kragen, president of the Hands sponsor, U.S.A. for Africa, explained the caution: "You don't want to just throw money out there. It would have been there two days after Hands Across America...
Vincent is back. We left him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, crop- eared and dazed in Arles: "Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant." Two months after writing this, he voluntarily entered the lunatic asylum at Saint-Remy in Provence; and 15 months after that, discharged but still plagued by unassuageable fits of melancholy, he shot himself to death in the rural village of Auvers, just north of Paris. Van Gogh was 37 when he died -- at the same...
...Gate next May. Still, the connection between the San Francisco peninsula and the East Bay, crossed by 250,000 autos a day, helped transform once distant rural areas into bustling commuter suburbs. In 1985 the San Francisco Bay area, with 5.8 million residents, became the nation's fourth largest metropolitan region...
...Buddhism's Dalai Lama, traditionally regarded as a living deity, was in attendance, swathed in purple and yellow. Also there were Uruguayan Methodist Emilio Castro, chief executive of the World Council of Churches, and South Africa's antiapartheid activist Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Metropolitan Filaret traveled from the U.S.S.R. It was the "most beautiful gift to God," observed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the diminutive Nobel Peace Prize recipient...
Schloer did not appear to be a victim of foul play, said Larry Gillis, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police. "I understand that [Schloer] had a history of cardiac problems," Gillis said...