Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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typical Harvard student on a typical day will probably have 14 reasons not to brave the wilds beyond the wooly urban jungle between the Science Center, Brattle Square and the Charles. (Quadlings are by definition atypical. There are not enough of them at Harvard...
...Witt C. Jones '79, executive director of the Massachusetts Urban Reinvestment Advisory Group, said individuals of all academic backgrounds could get jobs in not-for-profit organizations...
Pixie Yates, 33, occupies the opposite but complementary end of the sportswear spectrum from Robinson. If he is dressing innately stylish FORTUNE readers, she has found an audience among the urban women-girls in their 20s and 30s who perhaps might relate to Bridget Jones' Diary more than they would acknowledge. Indeed, Yates' clothes have attracted some of the very celebrities--Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox--who seem affixed in permanent ingenuedom...
TIME pointed to useful strategies for halting urban sprawl [NATION, March 22]. Important as these are, none will stop the sprawl steamroller without another essential element--reform of the property tax. This tax inflates land prices and spurs nonuse and abuse of city sites, driving development out into forests and fields. It raises your taxes when you build and maintain homes or stores but lowers them if you let properties decay. These pocketbook incentives for destroying communities are a prime cause of the out-migration that fuels sprawls. WALTER RYBECK Kensington...
Last week this urban Robinson Crusoe, an unemployed comic nicknamed Nasubi (the Japanese word for eggplant), emerged from his Truman Show-like hermitage with the subtlety typical of TV in Japan: he was led into another room, the walls collapsed away and a crowd roared with delight. "You mean, everyone has been watching my naked body all this time?" he asked. In fact, his genitals had been covered by an electronic eggplant...