Word: neighborhooding
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...Central West End is home to Washington University's medical campus and a favorite hangout for hip twentysomethings. The neighborhood is one of the luckier ones - many residents never lost power. Half a dozen coffee shops advertising free wi-fi line the main drag, Euclid Avenue...
Every available table was spoken for at St. Louis Coffee Oasis on Friday morning at 10:30. Word had spread that this 14-table coffee shop in the city's Central West End neighborhood still had free wireless Internet. After Wednesday night's windstorm that pummeled the city, damaged Busch Stadium and left 500,000 without power, the Internet is as coveted as ice or flashlights...
...occasional translator. Bir al-Abed is a poor, Shi'ite area whose residents mainly support Hizballah. But there were no people there today; it was practically deserted, with shops shuttered, no cars on the streets. Bir al-Abed is close to Hizballah's headquarters, which are in the next neighborhood, so - like most areas in the southern part of the city - it's been pounded for almost a week. Bridges and overpasses have been reduced to rubble. Several intersections have been turned into craters, often filled with water after the water mains under the street are shattered...
...couple of small bombs about 500 yards away, on the next block. They sent gray plumes into the air and filled my nose with the smell of cordite and dust. The cab driver who drove us there, Ahmad Hammoud, 40, didn't even flinch. He's from the neighborhood and was more concerned with the fate of his family. "I got my family out on the first day of the strikes," he said. But he stayed. "I thought it was wrong to leave because if we all left it would be like surrendering to Israel...
When the electricity finally failed in my East Beirut neighborhood, I set up shop at a rooftop hotel bar and waited for the next Israeli bombs to fall. Almost immediately, the sky erupted with what sounded like antiaircraft fire but turned out to be red and green fireworks garishly flashing over the hot, dark city. The Shi'ite residents of Beirut's southern suburbs, pummeled all day by the Israeli assault, were celebrating Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah's declaration of war with Israel...