Word: neighborhoods
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...sorting mail at the post office - "which in our neck of the woods was considered to be a very good job, because you couldn't lose it," Blankfein says. His mother worked as a receptionist at a burglar-alarm company - "one of the few growth industries in my neighborhood...
...coolest part of Hammarby Sjostad, a new eco-neighborhood of Stockholm, is the trash. It gets sucked through pneumatic tubes - at 43 m.p.h. (70 km/h) - after residents drop their household waste into special chutes: one for food that will get composted, another for paper to be recycled and a third for garbage that can be burned. As the latter gets incinerated, the energy produced is converted into district heating and electricity. The goal is both to keep garbage out of landfills and ultimately to produce half the neighborhood's energy...
...country's first black president was coming to honor its great champion for the poor, in a church that tells the story of the city over the years. It anchors a neighborhood once known for crime and drugs and violence, now a fizzing mix of college kids and old Irish and new immigrants and young families and stores that offer "Indian, Pakistani, Middle Eastern, Asian, Spanish, and American Groceries." In the days before, many thousands had come to pay their respects...
...during the 2004 presidential campaign, and she served as a surrogate for the Obama campaign in 2008 in heavily Catholic areas. The now retired Monsignor Thomas Duffy remembers the Senator and his wife becoming regular fixtures at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington's Chevy Chase neighborhood. "He and Vicki used to come to Mass rather regularly when they were in town," says Duffy, noting that her children also went to confession and attended religion classes. "We sometimes didn't agree on certain issues, but we would always chat...
...given, which I feel was a bit predatory, given my economic circumstances," she says. "I'm even willing to buy the house outright from them for what I'm told they'd probably get it for at auction, around $100,000. Anything to keep the house. My neighborhood's got too many foreclosed homes as it is." She points to one that lenders have yet to sell - but which she and her neighbors fear has become a nighttime lair for drug-addict squatters. (Watch a video on people facing foreclosure in Tampa...