Word: regionalize
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...Less a traditional crime film than an as-told-to social document, Gomorrah reveals the reach of a business that has poisoned an entire region; for Camorra is both a crime syndicate and one of the nation's largest employers - southern Italy's own stimulus package. Where else in a sluggish economy can a young man find work? (In the movie, a college graduate, lured into a job supervising the dumping of toxic waste, decides to quit the business. His padrone, disgusted, spells out what awaits him: "Go make pizzas.") When everyone in town is either a gangster...
...same time, some houses are still overvalued. Economists disagree by how much, and the answer changes from region to region. Houses in Cleveland are undoubtedly cheap. They could use some new home buyers there. But if we're still not in the ballpark of normality overall--and certain market watchers think we might see prices drop an additional 10% to 15% nationally before this thing is over--then spending billions to spur on buyers won't be a magical fix. "To prop up prices above fundamentally justified levels is throwing good money after bad," says Joe Gyourko, professor of real...
...moment neared. By 11:30—the original closing time for security screening—I had advanced far enough to observe that slowly but surely ticket-holders were still making their way through the security point. By 11:45 I had found my way to a region of the mass of people actually moving forward, albeit slowly. By 11:55 I was at the cusp of the row of metal detectors—at the front and center of the crowd—when the policewoman in charge announced “hold the line...
...colorfully painted tribal feathers that he fans towards the camera lens. Here, Fani-Kayode captures an aggressive figure who simultaneously offers the comfort of tradition through a symbolic image of culture. However, the photograph also reveals a cultural prudishness through its aversion to the open expression of sexuality. The region below the waist is darkened, and the only discernible forms are a golden phallus incorporated into a threatening horned visage drawn in tribal paint. In another photograph entitled “Black Friar,” Fani-Kayode is dressed in black religious garb and set against a dimly...
...picture of the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown tragically familiar: a region with great natural wealth, riven by war, racked with hunger and traumatized by a long history of colonial abuse, postcolonial kleptocracy and plunder. In the past 10 years alone, millions have died here, and more die each day as a result of the conflict. Most die not from war wounds but from starvation or disease. A lack of infrastructure means there is little medical care in the cities and none in rural communities, so any infection can be a death sentence. The most...