Word: neighborhooding
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...there was a girl in the neighborhood whose blood ever rose above the freezing point...nay if there was even a cherry-cheeked kitchen girl to romance with occasionally, it might possibly be endurable...
...Still, several times a month, women like Yang and Wang Xiuqin, whose son Chen Guoqing is also imprisoned for the taxi murder, visit the main petition office in a run-down neighborhood near the Beijing South train station. Yang says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come?" In December 2005, fed up with the lack of response, four relatives bypassed the petition office and marched straight to the red gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. Fu Yuru, mother of He Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence...
...James Cheung At Hong Kong's Lanson Place, housed in a 26-story skyscraper, Cheung guides guests--free of charge or tip--on what he calls "a wow walk" designed to help them feel at ease in the buzzy Causeway Bay neighborhood. He points out affordable cafés for lunch, the fastest routes to Prada and Dior as well as Ying Kee Tea House, where guests can stock up on oolong blends to relieve jet lag. (There's a kettle in the room back at the hotel.) Cheung also times the hourlong walk to coincide with a touristy treat...
...year-old Islamic militant brandishing a hand grenade to evade arrest, or a peaceful religiously devout Muslim who had forsworn his radical past? Either way, his death last week in a hail of bullets fired by Lebanese police has ignited strong anti-government passions in the impoverished Tebbaneh neighborhood of Tripoli and a backlash of sympathy for a band of Islamic radicals battling Lebanese troops in a Palestinian refugee camp 10 miles to the north...
Concerns about how construction of the University’s 500,000 square foot science complex in Allston might negatively impact the Boston neighborhood marked a meeting of the Harvard Allston Task Force Wednesday night. During the meeting between Harvard officials, Boston officials, and the task force—17 mayor-appointed local residents—Harvard planners outlined the ways in which construction of the science complex would impact the area. University officials estimate that over the three to four years that it will take to complete construction of the proposed science complex, up to 1,000 workers will...