Word: metropolitane
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...house, located in the middle-class suburb of Plainfield, NJ, is just one example of the clandestine brothels surrounding metropolitan areas all over the country. Many Americans are surprised when I tell them this story, confirming the concern raised by numerous non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) and researchers: that the American public is largely unaware of the existence of sexual slavery in the United States, despite the tens of thousands of women and children living in bondage today...
...While car sharing is now available in nine big cities and a score of smaller towns, in many places the operations are still seedling, with just a few cars. Expansion is under way, however, and car-sharing companies plan to bring the service to more than two dozen major metropolitan areas--a trend that could eventually remove tens of thousands of cars from the highways, reducing pollution, energy use and congestion...
...area that have enough employees who are likely to find others with a similar commute. But Steele and his partners think their idea can help ease traffic congestion around the U.S. They recently began operating in several counties outside New York City and want to start in three other metropolitan areas by the end of the year. They're also working on a more ambitious phone version of the service that would use global-positioning satellites to match riders with cars already on the road in their area. With NuRide, Americans might soon be able to hitch a ride from...
...Petting Zoo follows “a hotshot painter” who has a nervous breakdown after viewing the work of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Carroll explains, “he thinks he sees in Velazquez’s work a spiritual element…and he thinks his paintings and those of his contemporaries are spiritually bereft.” The young painter then spends 72 hours in a psychological observation unit–“because they can do that if they think you?...
...beauty of the town from which they emerged. Duluth is a small city in northern Minnesota, packed on a hill overlooking the western tip of Lake Superior. Its population has dwindled as the iron mines have dried up, and young people move on in search of the metropolitan lifestyle Duluth fights to insulate itself from. Buried in the snows of long winters, residents hole up in the bitter cold with wool and addiction, the pace of life slowing to a crawl. Last Saturday the band’s frigid notes resonated just as well with the thawing tundra setting...