Word: urban
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...which account for about 5% of car sales in France. Last month, Paris city council voted in principle to outlaw 4x4s in the capital, a symbolic move rather than a real ban. The French 4x4 Federation complains that the measures are an attempt to turn SUVs into "scapegoats for urban pollution" and denies that they pollute more than other vehicles. But French automakers Renault and Peugeot are sitting...
Former Harvard Dental School student Martin Urban was sentenced to six years in prison last Thursday after being convicted of two counts of rape on June 28, two months after his first trial resulted in a hung jury...
Prosecutors said the alleged rapes were committed on Dec. 20, 2001, when Urban, 30, drove the victim—a friend and classmate at the dental school—home from a party. The victim was asleep in the backseat of Urban’s car before he raped her twice...
...Urban went before Judge Elizabeth Donovan for sentencing on July 1. Donovan sentenced Urban to the state’s recommendation of a total of six years in prison for both counts with an additional five years probation. The sentence is significantly less than the maximum 20 years that each count of rape carries. Procopio said that Urban’s lack of a criminal record influenced the prosecution’s decision to seek a lesser sentence...
...coming week, for example, students will be addressed by Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and Pforzheimer Professor Mahzarin R. Banaji on Tuesday, and Associate Professor of Urban Planning Jerold S. Kayden on Thursday...