Word: metropolitane
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...among those in their 20s. In places like Croydon, where the economy gets a big boost from vertical-drinking palaces that can compete for customers as far as 50 miles away, city centers have become weekend no-go zones for the sober. Says Commander Chris Allison of London's Metropolitan Police: "There's a culture among certain young people that you haven't had a good night out unless you become paralytically drunk, puked up in a bucket, urinated on someone's front lawn and, best of all, smacked...
...blood infection and pneumonia; in Albuquerque, N.M. Derided by some as repetitive and uninspired, his paintings and sculptures, often of Native American women, were hugely popular in the 1970s and '80s, drawing such fans as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Andy Warhol and appearing in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which put one of his works on the cover of a catalog for a 1973 exhibition...
...first Pulitzer Prize, which he shared with the staff of the L.A. Times, came in 1995 for the newspaper’s immediate “spot coverage” of the 1994 Northride Earthquake, one of the strongest earthquakes ever to have an epicenter in a metropolitan area...
...Matt and Andrew’s minds as they stood outside the bar in Nashville, trying to figure out where to go next. Sure, Matt is from Long Island, Andrew just north of San Francisco, and between them they have only ever lived in sky blue, major metropolitan areas. But by that night in late July, all that stuff in the middle was starting to feel like what it is: their country...
...stoic Monique M. Jordan, 27, meandered through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport last Thursday, seeking a way out of homelessness. Far from her flooded home located in the lower Ninth Ward—one of the poorest and hardest hit areas of New Orleans—she thinks the irony of Katrina is that it will provide a route out of poverty for the downtrodden...