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Bing planned on having one child, but birth control was never an option. For much of the last decade, the City of Manila, one of Metro Manila's semi-autonomous municipalities, has engaged in a campaign against modern contraception. In 2000, Mayor Lito Atienza issued an order effectively banning birth control from city-funded clinics. Eight years and a new mayor later, the ban persists. The city's affluent minority buys birth control from private clinics or procures condoms on the sly, but poor women, like Bing, go without...
...strong ties to local media. Lee was The Crimson's business manager last year, and the company is building an advertising network on several local Web sites. Currently, PaperG's main product, Flyerboard, is featured on boston.com (the site of The Boston Globe), HarvardSquare.com, and the Web sites of Metro Boston, the Weekly Dig, The Crimson, and the New Haven Independent...
...loaded with giant speakers that blast campaign propaganda loud enough to knock coconuts out of trees, which is how they got their name. It means producing official campaign salsa and reggaeton songs; Clinton seems particularly proud of her endorsement from salsa legend Willie Colon. "It's never dull," says Metro San Juan magazine editor Philipe Schoene Roura, author of an upcoming book about Puerto Rico politics. "It's not the kind of politics that Americans are used...
...obvious answer is to invest in public transport systems. But Sao Paulo has just 38 miles of metro line, and although it plans to add another 22 miles to the total by 2010, that is clearly too little, too late. Even the city's traffic chief admits things will get worse before they get better...
Jennifer 8. Lee ’99 has spent the last seven years reporting for the New York Times Metro-City Room, traveling the globe, and fielding questions about her middle initial. Her first book, “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,” was released last month. Lee, a former Crimson vice president, took a break from her current book tour to discuss Chinese food in space, the rules of journalism, and why she loves Jews.The Harvard Crimson: What was the genesis of the book? Jennifer 8. Lee: I wrote an article in 2003 about a Chinese family...