Word: urban
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Sitting in an office filled with books on archaeology and photos documenting more than 30 years’ worth of expeditions, Lamberg-Karlovsky discussed his interest in the “commercial and political relations that connected the earliest urban centers,” a passion fueled by the discovery of the rapid spread of written language in the region and the manufacture of carved stone vessels which were used for international trade...
...action/fantasy movie Constantine, is accustomed to accusations of a messianic complex. Reeves, after having played Neo in The Matrix, returns with a new name but suspiciously similar storyline and character: laconic loner John Constantine fights an epic battle of good-versus-evil while brooding at the fringe of American urban society...
...longtime Bangkok resident myself, I find the author too charitable at times. Is the city's Chatpetch Tower really a "post-modernist pastiche" of the ubiquitous Greco-Roman style? Or is it just rubbish, like so much urban Thai architecture? Sometimes, too, the urge to be exhaustive is just plain exhausting, although future social historians will thank Cornwel-Smith for recording how you toughen up a Siamese fighting fish before a bout. (Rather meanly, you "just stir the water.") Encyclopedic in scope, Very Thai is an unapologetic celebration of both the exotic and the everyday, and an affectionate reminder...
...world. The World Bank estimates that in 2001, of the 1.1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day?the conventional definition of the desperately poor?428 million were in India and neighboring South Asian nations. Within a short drive of some of India's new, glittering, urban landscapes, chronically poor villages where children are malnourished can be found. Poverty in rural India is breaking social bonds, driving mass migration to cities, and fueling lawlessness and violence. As Chidambaram told TIME last week: "Our villages were neglected for too long. There is deep concern in rural India...
While several panels addressed social action in developing nations, Saturday’s events also highlighted urban youth and education as appropriate venues for new benevolent enterprises...