Word: neighborhood
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...runs back and forth among the dilapidated houses, stopping occasionally to expertly shimmy their hips and twirl their wrists. They're chased by several whooping boys, who inevitably catch them and haul them off to "jail," a spot by a wall. The gypsy children of Istanbul's impoverished Sulukule neighborhood - home to the world's oldest Roma community - call this game Cops and Bellydancers, a homespun version of Cops and Robbers amended to reflect their own experience of being born into a life of dancing and dodging the police...
...Roma of Istanbul are very poor, earning on average around $250 a month, but the land they inhabit, once unimportant and peripheral, is now prized real estate minutes away from the city center. If contractors and the local municipality have their way, the entire neighborhood of Sulukule - home to 3,500 residents - is to be razed by the end of the year to make way for a gated community of 620 up-market neo-Ottoman townhouses...
...Enters a Paul Mitchell salon and demands a job: is mocked by the employees as he disco dances his way out of the shop Borat: Sings the national anthem at a southern rodeo, gets booed by the crowd as he deliberately botches the words. Jesus: Walks his new California neighborhood to introduce himself as a sex offender...
...side of which is occupied by Israeli shopkeepers, while the other is rented out to Palestinians. They exist in uneasy, yet potentially volatile, harmony. They are, however, threatened by a greedy realtor who's raising their rents in order to drive them out so he can erect a neighborhood-busting shopping mall...
Hart said the Square network could serve as a model for other community organizations seeking to blanket their neighborhood with wireless Internet, but she said that the sheer number of units required with current technology would stymie a city-wide effort...