Word: urban
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Housewives' suburban hotties, like Sex and the City's urban ones, are unabashed straight stereotypes: the frazzled mom, the girl next door, the spicy Latina, the uptight homemaker. But, notes Paul Colichman, co-founder and CEO of Here! TV, a gay and lesbian premium channel, "Gay men have always loved sexy, ultrafeminine, exaggerated women like Marilyn Monroe. The women in Desperate Housewives are caricatures and larger than life. That's why it works...
...lacquer became unfashionable and sales plummeted. But one boutique that is bucking the trend is Tokyo's Yamada Heiando, a family-run business that has overhauled product lines to meet modern tastes. In addition to the traditional banquet trays and soup bowls, Yamada Heiando offers slick accessories for the urban sophisticate, from penholders to mouse pads...
...Visits Bureau?which collects complaints from aggrieved citizens?has seen a substantial increase in petitions over the appropriation of farmland and homes by local officials and property developers for new public and private projects. Meanwhile, according to a report released last year by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, urban incomes have grown so rapidly that they now exceed rural incomes by more than 300% on average. "China is in the robber-baron stage of its economic development," says Nick Young, editor of the Beijing-based China Development Brief, a quarterly journal on civil society. "People are dispossessed, and that...
...TIME: There's a focus on rural poverty in your budget. What about India's urban poor? Chidambaram: In urban areas, I believe that hardly anyone goes without food; there is always some kind of income. But their poverty stems from the environment in which they live?lack of sanitation, lack of drinking water, medical care. The answer to urban poverty is to get rid of the blight of slums and build proper homes with basic facilities...
...Every time I comment on this, someone explains: “Boston is a really old city.” I appreciate that. But this argument does not explain the horrible signage and inexplicable lack of lane lines in so many places. Also, the Big Dig was not inevitable. Urban planning? Anybody...