Word: urban
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Participants can direct their money to help reduce child labor in Tamilnadu, India, build rural schools in Nicaragua, build urban schools in Pakistan or support an AIDS clinic in Mali...
Still fuming over the failure of gun control legislation to pass through Congress this summer, President Clinton has decided to take a page from the states' anti-tobacco playbook. The White House announced Tuesday that, along with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would sue gun manufacturers on behalf on HUD tenants. HUD chief exec Andrew Cuomo hit the morning TV news circuit Wednesday to say that his agency is riding shotgun on the suit because public housing residents are the principal victims of gun violence, both in terms of shootings and the climate of fear they live...
...Khan, the spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili Muslims, also gave $1.5 million in 1979 to establish the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the GSD. In 1987, he contributed to funding for GSD's Center for Urban Development Studies at the Harvard Design School...
...City. A sign discreetly advises, SEPHORA MAKEUP ARTISTS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE FOR COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONS, but the customers prefer to play in the aisles. In this Art Deco universe, all cosmetics are created equal. Witness the beauty behemoth Estee Lauder occupying the same space as stylish newcomers like BeneFit and Urban Decay. And despite the abundance of salespeople in black pantsuits and single black gloves, supervision is minimal. "I know what I'm looking for, so this works for me," says Elisa Lee, 25, of the hands-off approach...
...have been taking hold of the top of the charts as of late, there's a numbing sameness to a lot of the hip-hop that's being pushed on radio and MTV. The music, rather than "keeping it real," seems more interested in catering to suburban stereotypes of urban life: Look kids, isn't DMX scary?!? Certainly there are great hip-hoppers out there--Lauryn Hill and Nas to name two--but as record labels jump on the rap bandwagon, the disposable acts are piling up. As two female performers, Bahamadia and Rah Digga, observe on a recent duet...