Word: metropolitanism
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Your story about where the jobs are today was simplistic [BUSINESS, Jan. 20]. Great, if you know how to program a computer, can work in an amusement park or sell fast food in a major metropolitan area. But what about people who don't do those things...
...ceiling paintings are there. But this month New York City museums have a veritable festa of Tiepolo's movable work, commemorating the 300th anniversary of his birth. Drawings by him and his disciples--including his sons Domenico and Lorenzo--are on view at the Pierpont Morgan Library, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a show of 80 of his paintings and oil sketches and 33 of his mysterious and brilliantly inventive etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi di Fantasia...
Such maddening shortages are commonplace in this northern Ohio town. Once a Rust Bucket epicenter, the metropolitan area (pop. 770,000) has become a hub for auto-part exports to Canada and Mexico since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994. Norton Manufacturing, a crankcase maker in nearby Fostoria, could hire 30 electricians, machine repairers and tool-and-die workers--if it could find them...
...America's reluctant guest MANUEL NORIEGA spent his time since 1992 chez Miami's Metropolitan Correctional Center? Boning up on pop culture, it seems. In At Random, the in-house magazine of Random House, which is publishing his memoirs, Manny, as his co-perps call him, says he is familiar with "those all-important staples of American culture, the Wild Horse Saloon and line-dancing on TNN." His bedtime reading: the Bible and Deepak Chopra, as well as People and Men's Health...
...Among the things I am working on at the moment is a project dealing with dynamics of inequality in major metropolitan areas," Bobo said...