Word: playground
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...anything but a boomtown. Bombed out and rubbish strewn, the capital was - and still is - home to one of Africa's biggest slums. Five years later, the pace of growth is best measured by the island of Mussulu, a former fisherman's village off Luanda. Today Mussulu is a playground for Angola's new oil oligarchs. Its white shoreline, 10 minutes south of Luanda's new yacht club, is teeming with power boats and jet skis. "That guy likes to bring people here in his helicopter," says Valdemir, a fisherman, pointing to the house of a local tycoon...
...will have a striking new skyline while casinos and other amusements will dot the city. Even sleepy Sentosa Island, a 500-hectare tourist hangout located 15 minutes from the city center, is slated for overhaul via a 10-year, $5 billion plan to turn it into a world-class playground for the wealthy, with multimillion-dollar seafront homes, a megayacht marina and a Universal Studios theme park. The point of this real estate renaissance: change Singapore's image as a prosperous but rather dull commercial hub into that of a vibrant, fun destination-a place people will want to live...
Harvard undergraduates nevertheless should take heed of that observation: Long the playground of activists and aspiring officeholders, this campus would benefit distinctly from some old-fashioned political apathy...
...want to go back to basics? Several articles express frustration at the adult world and warn college students against rushing in; the position here is pro-freedom, pro-Bueller, pro-“Dammit.” The main photo spread has the girls playing at a playground, one of them drinking from a juice box and another eating cookies. Between that and “Girls’ Night In”, middle school looms really, really large throughout Freeze, its haunting memory coupled with a heightened awareness that growing up is going to happen pretty soon even though...
...editors, I have recently read the article published in The Crimson on the ‘Picture Balata’ tour and was moved to respond (“Politicizing the Playground,” oped, Apr. 20). I have just returned from a visit to Gaza and the West Bank where I was carrying out research on behalf of the UK’s Mental Health Foundation. I have been following the press of the Picture Balata tour with great interest as I had the pleasure of meeting one of the tour organisers in Balata refugee camp. My colleague...