Word: subway
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...Rubin. China's roads are in better shape than many found in the U.S., starting with the potholed, neglected highways near the Detroit auto factories that put America on wheels in the first place. On trains zipping past Indian fields, passengers surf the Internet on their laptop computers. On subway cars deep underground in China, riders chat on cell phones. Not in America. Indeed, Intel and other companies have hired Chinese researchers to work on the next generation of cell-phone and mobile Internet technology because Chinese workers are already using cutting-edge services and technology unfamiliar to Americans...
...wearing tattered clothing. And I wish I could say that this was exclusive to my vacation, but this was something much bigger than Romania. It’s something reflexive, something I do when I listen to my iPod as a homeless person asks for money on the subway...
...common in the center. São Paulo’s Liberdade neighborhood boasts the biggest community of ethnic Japanese outside of Japan. São Paulo just hosted the biggest gay pride parade in history, but it is not recommended that gay men walk alone at night. The subway is extremely clean and efficient. But it does not reach the periphery, and will not even when finished...
...Many cultural idiosyncrasies are amusing. There is a veritable passion for public display of affection: if there’s a couple—in a theater, on the subway, at a Festa Junina—they are probably making out. There is a curious love for English words and phrases: malls are called “shoppings” and American music dominates pop radio. Asking for directions can result in a 30-minute conversation. Working for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, I have learned that everyone wants to talk to a reporter. The subject...
...subway home I chose to leave my iPhone in its bag, since I'd seen the YouTube clip of my counterpart at Newsweek, Steven Levy, being interviewed on Fox News when a passerby jumped him on live TV and tried to wrestle the iPhone out of his hand. One wonders if the incredible frenzy over the iPhone signals a sea change in Apple's brand identity. The iPod was the accessory of the hip cognoscenti. Will the pricey, sought-after iPhone become a mere status symbol, the kind of thing that marks you as an overpaid Wall Street jerkwad...