Word: neighborhood
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...hostage situation remains very unclear. There are believed to be some 25 civilians trapped in the Taj, 40 at the Oberoi hotel, and perhaps 10 in the Colaba Market neighborhood. But in each place some of those people may be trapped rather than hostages. Authorities have cordoned off each of the locations. Much of the normally busy city is deserted, with shops and businesses closed...
After Rhee graduated from Cornell University in 1992, she joined Teach for America. She spent three years teaching at Harlem Park Elementary, one of the lowest-performing schools in Baltimore. Her parents visited and were stunned by the conditions of the neighborhood. "The area where the kids lived reminded me of a scene after the Korean War," says her father Shang Rhee...
Here's where the camera would pan way out, from that house in the Santo Suárez neighborhood, downhill past the official state recording studio, past the House of Music on Neptune Street, catching everyone's hips as it goes, until the whole crumbling metropolis is swaying to this montuno, all the way down to the Malecón on the sea, where the world's most humid block party unfolds on the esplanade, the way it does every evening of the summer, just across the Florida Straits from the big enemigo...
...says that earlier this year, 19 teenagers went missing from her neighborhood. They had made a pact to leave Cuba by raft. Months later, not one of them had called to say they had arrived in the States. The mothers in the neighborhood knew their children had drowned...
...than I had expected, was way into the new plan. "It's always a good idea to come up with new products," he said. He thought, however, that we should bring the price down to 16 córdobas, which is about 80¢. But Freddy assured me that in his neighborhood, that price would still make our cupcakes obnoxious luxury items. He also suggested that we tweak the name of the shop to Freddy and Joel's Extreme Cupcakery, since Freddy claims he's better known than I am in Managua, which I pretended to believe. When we started to talk...