Word: metropolitanism
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...grandfather took his mother's maiden name, Dillon. That name would ultimately be printed on millions of U.S. dollar bills. Having acquired a taste for art from his years in France, he amassed a collection of Impressionist paintings, much of which he later donated to New York City's Metropolitan Museum...
...Americans are more economically successful than whites is erroneous. While the census bureau reported in 1997 that Asian Americas have higher median household incomes than non-Hispanic whites, this overlooks the fact that Asians have more income earners and individuals within each household. Moreover, Asian Americans concentrate both in metropolitan areas and in the states of California, New York and Hawaii, where costs of living are much higher, thereby decreasing their actual purchasing power. Consequently, if we use per capita income as a socioeconomic indicator, non-Hispanic whites, on average, earn over $2,000 more than Asian Americans
...some of them in protective white suits and masks, and seeing the long hours they spent in the top-floor apartment above a local pharmacy, neighbors in North London's multiracial Wood Green section knew that something big was up. Last Tuesday morning they learned just how big. The Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch - as part of a joint intelligence operation with the Special Branch and MI5, Britain's domestic security service - raided premises in North and East London early on Jan. 5 and took six men, all believed to be North Africans, into custody under the Terrorism...
...Arab world's self-inflicted wounds. It would, after all, have been possible to write a similarly gloomy tome on Central Africa. The Arab world's failure is noteworthy not because of its scale, but because on Sept. 11 it spilled out of its natural confines and into metropolitan America. With no legitimate channels for political discourse, Arabs have suffered from what Queen Rania of Jordan calls a "hope gap." For some, that gap has been filled by a passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope...
...getting top billing from the international art community. This year's exhibition, housed in the city's recently refurbished Shanghai Art Museum at 325 Nanjing Xi Road, has as a theme "urban creation." And on display are the works of artists both delighted and disturbed by a rapidly changing metropolitan landscape. Among the star pieces are a playhouse-size structure made of plastic Coca-Cola bottles and designed by renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban; a taxi deconstructed by Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul and fashioned into furniture; and a mobile made of pieces of trash?a Styrofoam takeout box, a plastic...