Word: urban
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...shows recall Sex and the City--which returns as a movie this summer--it's no coincidence. Cashmere is produced by Star, Lipstick by Candace Bushnell, who wrote the newspaper column SATC was based on. SATC combined a fashion-conscious urban fairy tale with sharp observation of the trade-offs working women face: a little glass slipper, a little glass ceiling. It was a love story that was also about loving yourself; the series ended with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) persuading wealthy flame Mr. Big to move to New York City--where her life and career were--rather than...
...support it. The 9/11 commission came to similar conclusions and noted that the CIA viewed bin Laden and his so-called Arab Afghans as "militarily insignificant" in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It is unfortunate that a distinguished scholar like Power decided to repeat this urban legend. James McKay, ALEXANDRIA...
British development company Urban Space Management put in its bid for gritty glamor with Container City, a warren of 15 artists' studios fashioned from 20 recycled containers in London's Docklands district in 2001. The crated community proved so popular, it was expanded to 40 units a year later. Since then, Urban Space has constructed 27 other buildings from recycled containers around the U.K., including classrooms, a health center and a recording studio...
Krieger said that contemporary Chinese urban development has been marked by an “incessant pressure to accommodate growth” along with more centralized decision-making...
...picking party nominees - places like California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey. But the other states can't match Missouri's record as a barometer of the nation's mood. In politics, as in geography, Missouri is a state in the middle, where east meets west, north meets south, urban meets rural. For 100 years, no one has served as President who didn't carry Missouri at least once...