Word: urban
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Although this guide is not intended as a complete description of urban living in America, it does try to portray the general feeling. Life, as Hobbes once put it, is "nasty, brutish, short, and the rent's way too high"--a statement even truer today, since the invention of carcinogens and condos...
...Minneapolis-based Urban Literacy Development Fund has awarded Boston a $40,000 grant which will support city programs that teach adults to read, a mayoral aide said yesterday...
Among the 29 urban areas designated as eligible to apply to the Urban Literacy Development Fund for money, 11 will receive funding and six will be granted the maximum amount of $40,000, said Margaret A. Borg, a project administrator at the fund...
...confusing, especially since Van Zandt is the kind of rock star people just enjoy shouting out to. Walking around Times Square ("my office"), near his home base in Manhattan, he cuts a striking figure in fringed leather, high boots and a trademark bandanna wrapped around his head, an urban swashbuckler whose frigate just got towed away for double parking. "Hey, Miami!" yell a | couple of citizens cruising by in a Chevy convertible. He waves and shouts back as the car runs a light at Broadway. "Miami," Van Zandt sighs. "That means they still know me from Bruce...
...equipped and poorly paid Philippine armed forces. Nowhere is that clearer than in Davao City, the sprawling city-state in southeastern Mindanao. A year ago Davao City and its 1.4 million people were so firmly in the control of the insurgents that Manila officials called the city a Communist "urban laboratory." But in the past eight months the N.P.A. has fled into the hills, and the city has been transformed into a government stronghold. The main agent of change: the vigilante group Alsa Masa, or Uprising of the Masses...