Word: urban
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None of this would have been possible without Nelson Mandela. He is South Africa's George Washington, the revolutionary turned President who has overseen the birth of a nation. His popularity is phenomenal. Eighty-three percent of urban blacks say he is doing well, while 55% of whites agree. In November 1993, almost four years after his release from prison and five months before South Africa's first democratic elections, Mandela's approval rating among whites stood at a mere 4%. In fact, today Mandela is more vital to white hopes than black, for among whites he is the indispensable...
...Phoenix Urban Heavy Rescue Team deployed its ropes and rigging equipment, special optical cameras with lights that can fit into small holes or spaces in debris, listening devices that can detect human heartbeats several feet away. Every so often the order went out for total silence: the chain saws stilled, all two way radios and cellular phones shut off, the helicopters and heavy equipment were sent away. "The idea is to get very quiet, don't even breathe, just drop the devices in and listen," says Gary Morris, deputy chief of the Phoenix fire department. "These devices are very sensitive...
...stickball--once a staple of urban athletics--is a thing of the past...
Trivial comparisons are possible, and we must watch out for them. The problems of abortion and urban poverty are not the tragedy of the Holocaust. But ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and tribal murder in Rwanda are comparable. At their essence is a desire to eradicate people because of their ancestry and their beliefs...
Pointing to studies by the Labor Department andthe Urban Institute, Jackson said that white malescomprise 33 percent of the country's populationbut 80 percent of its tenured professors and over90 percent of its U.S. Senators and Fortune 500company executives...