Word: metropolitanism
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...established a toll-free telephone number for anyone with information regarding the incidents on September 11 in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Please call 1-866-483-5137 with any information. An online form to report information is also available...
...system responded accordingly; the emergency plans came out of the drawers and clicked one by one into place. The city buckled, the traffic stopped, the bridges and tunnels were shut down at 9:35 as warnings tumbled one after another; the Empire State Building was evacuated, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations. First the New York airports were closed, then Washington's, and then the whole country was grounded for the first time in history...
...Unfortunately for those living outside the reach of major metropolitan health systems, the good news does not hold: Residents of rural areas fared the worst in terms of overall indicators of health, with urbanites coming in a close second. Researchers found that rural residents tended to smoke more, lose their teeth more often and die sooner than their more citified peers. They also suffered from a lack of preventative and palliative care...
...song in his heart and "stingers" in his pockets (i.e., pointed barbs scribbled by his joke writers), actor JAMIE FOXX, 33, insists that he's ready to be the host of this week's MTV Music Video Awards, a ceremony that prizes spontaneous combustion. New York City's Metropolitan Opera House is the venue, so Foxx says he'll open the show with nominated songs sung aria-style. In between introducing performers like Britney Spears, Jay-Z, Staind and U2, says Foxx, his mission is to set the pace and "up the ante." He's also intent on getting...
...event had the typically overdone star-studdedness we've all come to expect from such affairs. It was held at the New York Metropolitan Opera House, a suitably incongruous venue probably chosen to accentuate, by contrast, the rock 'n' roll spirit of the participants who, compared to pretty much anything else other than the Metropolitan Opera House, lacked both rock and roll, not to mention hip and hop. On my way in I spied rapper Busta Rhymes going past the ticket-takers with a four-member posse in tow (somehow I imaged Busta with a much bigger posse...