Word: neighborhooding
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...That evening, Bruce and I played a little tennis with Barry and Mike-other old friends-then enjoyed a cookout at Bruce?s place. Next morning I breakfasted with Mom, then drove back to Westchester. The weekend before last, there was that neighborhood party, followed by the summer fulcrum: the All-star break. I thought the several Sox acquitted themselves nicely in the not-very-interesting game. Tito managed about as well as he has since joining the club. Save some of that, Terry...
...messy situation. No one is denying that federal and state officials, under pressure to combat a spike in pain-killer abuse, are waging an escalating war on drugs that is spilling into the waiting rooms of neighborhood doctors. Over the past six years, more than 5,600 physicians from Alaska to West Virginia have been investigated on suspicion of "drug diversion." Some doctors allegedly prescribed narcotics too freely, while others issued them to patients who turned out to be dealers or addicts. More than 450 doctors have been prosecuted on charges ranging from illegal prescribing and drug trafficking to manslaughter...
...gathered outside the King Kebab, a takeaway joint on the end of a strip of budget shops that appear to be closed much of the time. Ali, Pav, Shy, Raja, Safi, Asif and Hasif are talking about their friend Kaki, another local boy, born nine miles from their Beeston neighborhood. "He was the best lad," says one, "everybody liked him." "He was gentle" and "he got on with everybody." Ameer, a younger boy in a nearby park, could "definitely not" believe it was Kaki. The evidence suggests otherwise. From CCTV images captured at rail stations in Luton and London...
...peer-court concept dates back to 1947 in Mansfield, Ohio, where kids handled neighborhood trials for young bicycle snatchers. The modern youth court started to take shape in the early 1970s, when a few cities experimented with a more formal kind of peer justice. In recent years, the movement has gained momentum, cheered on by police departments and local governments eager for justice that works and does so cost effectively. An entire youth-court trial typically takes less than an hour, including deliberations. Nationally, the program's average cost per case is about $480, according to an American Youth Policy...
...location. Situated in the middle of a rowdy Tokyo neighborhood called Ochanomizu?light years from the depressing nothingness of Ohda?Digital Hollywood's headquarters is surrounded by bookstores, cheap eateries and the capital's best universities. But Fujimoto these days is most at home in the glittering towers of Roppongi Hills, the urban development complex that has come to represent Japan's new superclass. Its avenues feature shops by Louis Vuitton, Issey Miyake, agn?s b. and Anna Sui and some of the city's best restaurants. Two residential blocks in the development are among Tokyo's most prestigious addresses...