Word: urban
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...Urban Outfitters’ Bargain Basement may have the cheapest style in the Square, but sometimes it’s a bit hit-or-miss. FM has waded through the leftover XXLs and XXSs to bring you some staples of fall fashion. After you’ve put your T-shirts and polos into winter storage, yet before you’ve recovered those down jackets, you might consider sporting a track jacket. It won’t keep you from safe from wind, rain, or snow—but fashion before function, right? Despite its functional failure, it will...
...Harvard’s hands-off approach to local politics may lie more in its students’ priorities than in the nature of the town-gown divide. Even at Yale, a university bounded by urban disaster on all sides, students traditionally leave some imprint on city government...
...fishermen who break bones and pilots who crash their private planes. "We're pretty much the area ambulance service," he says. Before he was dispatched to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Milam had never been called out of Alaska for a mission and had never done urban search-and-rescue work. But like thousands of other personnel, he was brought to Louisiana to do what the Coast Guard does best: improvise wildly...
...After the implosion of FEMA director Michael Brown, President George W. Bush placed Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen in charge of the federal response to Katrina. Before Hurricane Rita even hit land, the Administration placed a Coast Guard rear admiral in charge of that recovery. These are essentially urban-planning jobs--not something men and women who spend much of their professional lives on water are exactly trained...
...artist whose humanistic, whimsical designs appeared in galleries, opera houses and subway stations around the world; in Monaco. In much of Folon's work, which included posters for UNICEF and covers for TIME and other magazines, his blank-faced Everyman, often dwarfed by modern structures, caricatured the chaos of urban life...