Word: urban
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from New Orleans ended two days later, in Memphis. We had visited a plantation in Louisiana’s swampland, passed dozens of trailer homes, left behind many stalks of corn, and checked another state off the map. Memphis was frozen in a traffic jam, but there it was: urban, alive...
...dark Saturday night in a parking lot in Lake Charles, La. about 12 hours after Hurricane Rita tore through here, and Columbus, Ohio Fire Department Capt. Jack Reall is briefing his 35-person FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team. "What you see is what you got. We have no idea what's going to happen," except that the promised roof to sleep under isn't going to work out. Nearby, McNeese State University's Burton Coliseum, most recently used to house those affected by Hurricane Katrina, is dark, with standing water and no working bathrooms, and is strewn with personal...
...should have been given a high priority in U.S. defense planning against terrorism. The government's unpreparedness makes me extremely skeptical of the effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security. It certainly didn't seem to have made plans for evacuation and disaster management in this major urban area. The scale of the disaster may have been unprecedented, but I thought the Bush Administration had spent the years since 9/11 planning for the unprecedented. Beth Conlin Brookline, Massachusetts...
...seats. The outcome left Schröder and Merkel racing to cobble together a coalition - and most Germans wondering what it all means for the country. One interpretation is that the results are a sign of a deepening social divide between jobless and low-paid workers and young, urban professionals. "The gap between winners and losers used to be bridged by the welfare state," says Franz Walter, a political scientist at Göttingen University. "That is no longer happening. We are back in the Middle Ages, with the beggar in front of the church doors." Whatever government emerges will...
...visited the slave castles and enjoyed Panafest after a month in Ghana. I traveled through the northern rural towns and the southern urban centers. I lived in the central region of Ghana, where the pride of the Ashanti Empire remains. White people, who may have visited Ghana for a week, perhaps facing an awkward conversation or two, might have left with a misconstrued perception of slavery and Africa. I’m happy however, that many of the white people I met left not feeling blame, but feeling the same ownership I have. Ownership of the fact that historical inequities...