Word: urban
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...information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning to define themselves in an information culture...
Wiener Professor of Social Policy William J.Wilson, director of the Kennedy School's Centerfor Joblessness and Urban Poverty, is about tobegin a five-year longitudinal study inconjunction with researchers in Chicago and SanAntonio...
...Jewelry is having a renaissance. "We're just all so tired of looking plain," notes Andrea Linett, a fashion writer at Harper's Bazaar and a Calypso regular. "The new version of a white T shirt and khakis is a camisole and sexy, fitted trousers. Femininity now signifies the urban look...
Bribiescas, who works at nearby Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), is currently using the team as part of a study of testosterone levels in urban males. According to Bribiescas, testosterone levels vary widely among urban males and the level of the hormone may be correlated with energy intake and expenditure...
...said WHRB interviewed experts in the fields of race relations and urban issues for the show...