Word: urban
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Galbraith added that environmentalists haveoverlooked the problem of visual pollution andshould try to beautify urban areas...
Oakhurst, which has a congregation that is roughly half black and half white, is what diversity is all about: people of different races coming together not in the mournful, candle-bearing aftermath of some urban riot or the artificially arranged precursor to some political photo op, but because they want to be together. Things in America tend toward being all one thing or all the other. Schools, parties, circles of friends, television sitcoms are often mostly or entirely white or mostly or entirely black. It's especially rare to see a church that is racially mixed with such equanimity...
...bulk of Vietnam's population, though, reform is falling short. Urban residents may be better off than ever, but 51% of the country lives below the World Bank's 2,100-calories-a-day subsistence level. In metropolitan Hanoi, many seem to be able to afford $2,700 for a Honda Dream motorcycle. For peasants, dreaming is as close as they will ever get to that goal. Economic reform is removing them-as well as their urban countrymen-from the socialist dole for health care and education. The rural families can't afford to pay for health care, however...
...DIFFICULTY FACING HARTFORD, Connecticut, is by now a familiar one: an inner-city public school system burdened by structural decay and besieged by the pathologies of urban poverty. But while money certainly seems in short supply, what is more troubling here is the isolation in which Hartford's students--94% of them African American or Hispanic, nearly 3 out of 4 poor, with a high school dropout rate more than three times the state average--find themselves: a sort of walled city, separated from less troubled suburbs by an invisible color line drawn not by law but by decades...
What complicates Sheff v. O'Neill--which was filed in 1989 on behalf of 17 students--is that Connecticut, unlike many states, has tried to address the problems of its urban schools. In order to compensate for inequities in local property-tax revenues, the state has poured millions into the Hartford system, which now spends more per student--nearly $9,000--than almost any other district. The money, though, has not begun to make a difference; Hartford's student test scores consistently rank last in the state, and continue to fall. Says Hartford Mayor Michael Peters: "Does it make...