Word: urban
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...Cambridge School Committee last night tapped a veteran superintendent who improved minority student performance and turned around a fiscally strapped urban district to be the next chief of Cambridge schools...
...Birds in urban environments are increasingly being threatened with extinction because males of many species cannot sing their mating calls loud enough for females to hear them over noise from vehicular traffic
...Harvard student from China did not receive his visa last fall largely because he was studying urban design, Casey says...
...focus on what is already known. In addition to learning “ways of knowing” in specific fields, students should also learn to identify what they do not know. Rarely will students come across professors or others dwelling on the great unsolved mysteries of Romantic poetry, urban decay or immunology. In some ways, the unwillingness to think at length about the largest, most difficult areas of ignorance is understandable. Knowledge usually moves forward in small steps, and this reality means students see only the smallest, most tractable problems. The great questions of most areas of inquiry remain...
...Urban Iraqis, also, are finally getting an opportunity to return to, or discover, normal life. Cautiously at first, and then in a deluge of bustling crowds - a human "izdiham" - Iraqis have returned to the streets and opened their shops and restaurants. There is certainly no shortage of food in much of Iraq, and in the streets of Najaf, the yellow humanitarian daily rations packages provided by the U.S. sell for 50 cents a piece. Of their contents, Iraqis appear to like only the raisins...