Word: urban
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...student activist movement might just be that of Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) founder, former Crimson columnist, Kirkland House resident, and general provocateur. Easy to spot, he frequently sports a Che-style cap that seems a deliberate part of his urban-grunge, revolutionary aesthetic...
...deal with such a rare urban problem, Delhi has come up with an unusual response: it's launched a monkey arms race. Companies and city officials have started employing langurs - large, black-faced apes - to protect buildings and scare off the smaller rhesus monkeys. "Any langur will do the business," says Zahid Khan, 20, who has been handling langurs since he was eight and most days chains one or two outside the Press Trust of India building, which houses TIME's Delhi bureau. "The monkeys are petrified of them...
...monkey population has grown in recent years - in addition to the urban feasts seeming to attract more, Malik also blames scientific laboratories, which use monkeys for experiments and then abandon them - the natural balance has been thrown off kilter. Hungry monkeys attack people and snatch food when they can. In 2004, monkeys were blamed when Ministry of Defence officials found top secret documents scattered around an office. Monkeys have broken into parliament and kept people from entering their own houses...
...week's sleek party people had become the next week's pious Muslim fasters. These young people belong to a type that defines urban, middle-class Iran. They are sophisticated, adaptable and hyper-social, devoted as much to dating and pop music as they are to observing Shi'ite rituals...
...Urban, Choi comes upon a long black dress and an oversized tiger-print T-shirt, each for under $10. Later on, Choi takes apart these pre-made pieces to create a dress with a black halter top and bubble-like skirt, cinched together at the waist with an intricate, braided piping. Choi describes the style of her designs as “classy, preppy, and very urban-esque...