Word: urban
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...URBAN DWELLERS...
Geography may really be destiny. According to a new study released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Child Trends that examined factors like health and education, low-income children are better off in poor, rural areas (the Midwest, for example) than in wealthier and more urban locales (the Northeast). "It is surprising," says report co-author William O'Hare about the plight of poor kids in rich states. "There is a crucial sense of community lacking in the metropolitan areas...
...reinvent the Aquos, Saeki encouraged the industrial designers to explore their new urban environment, but they were all required to attend a daily morning assembly. There are no in-house design competitions; team members build on their individual expertise in fields such as architecture, color coordination and interior design. They might sport faux-hawks, but Sharp's designers are decisively Japanese in their collaborative creativity...
...time larger than the devices that nanoscientists create, and temperature difference of a fraction of a degree can decrease the precision of an imaging device, LISE’s heavily-filtered 10,000-square foot cleanroom has less than 1,000 particles of dust per cubic foot. A typical urban environment has millions of particles per cubic foot...
...Colombia as part of its attempt to push a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the country through Congress. American legislators are taken to flower farms that live off of exports to the United States, meetings with President Alvaro Uribe and business and labor leaders. Optional stops include textile plants, urban slums and remote villages being rebuilt from the ashes of guerrilla and paramilitary violence...