Word: neighborhooding
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They shut down the Pepsi machines in the University of Portland cafeteria the other day. The plastic bottles of Hunt's Ketchup disappeared. Sugar was replaced with honey from a neighborhood beekeeper. And everything else on the lunch menu, from soup (lentil) to nuts (hazel), was locally grown, baked, milked and mixed. The shrimp was harvested in nearby Netarts Bay, not in Thailand; the herbs were gathered in adjacent Clackamas County, not in California; the chicken was pastured on fields outside Eugene, not imported from the Midwest's vast factory farms. "It's awesome," said Alex Samuels, 19, a freshman...
...embittered citizens turned their forgotten wastelands into a battleground. The skies burned red. Crowds of stone throwers clashed with police, while shadowed figures hurled Molotov cocktails at cars and buses. The rioters were mostly Arab or black, but they were also mostly French, born and bred in the neighborhoods they were setting ablaze. Their anger spread in an arc across northern Paris, just a few miles from the city's glittering heart, as one desolate neighborhood after another joined in the mayhem. Thousands of police and firemen struggled to douse the rebellion and found themselves inflaming it. In one suburb...
...Adkins and his staff maintain that the campaign is going well, pointing to widespread support in the Riverside neighborhood and the connections Adkins has formed by founding the Cambridge Town Meeting Association and serving on the board of the Association of Cambridge Neighborhoods...
...teen in the 1970s, Adkins watched his father battle Harvard’s encroachment into their neighborhood. Adkins, too—now a first-time candidate for City Council—cut his political teeth as the president of the Riverside Neighborhood Association, representing residents in their struggle against Harvard’s latest expansion in the area...
...It’s never a completely transparent process,” says Alan Joslin, who worked with Adkins as a neighborhood representative and now serves with him on a committee overseeing the implementation of the agreement...