Word: urban
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...committee responsible for the report compiled information on many major ecosystems including coasts and oceans, forests, farmlands, fresh waters, grasslands and shrublands and urban and suburban areas...
...Sacramento [Sept. 2] incorrectly stated that the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University used raw U.S. Census data to determine that the city is the nation's most integrated. We should have said that Harvard used, in part, Census data analyzed by the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. For more information on the Center, visit www.albany.edu/mumford...
Commanders in urban environments can't survey the entire battlefield and instead see only bits and pieces; it's like playing chess while viewing only four squares on the board. This battlefield compression means that low-ranking corporals and sergeants--not colonels and captains--must often make life-and-death decisions. These choices come fast and furious when you're fighting downtown: 90% of the targets are less than 50 yards away and seen for only seconds. Killing innocent civilians--or your own men--is a risk that goes with the terrain. A quarter of all explosive rounds turn into...
...needs the mountains when you've got the Sears Tower? Why hit the slopes when you've got the local shopping mall? The newest fad in extreme sports is urban adventure racing, in which teams compete to scale buildings, scooter through busy intersections and dart on foot through crowded stadiums. Chicago was host to the first one, the 24-hour "Wild Onion," two years ago, and is getting ready for its third race this weekend. The 600 participants won't have much time to train: the course is a secret until two hours before the start...
...Yugoslavia's cliffhanger overtime victory over Argentina in the World Basketball Championships 77 people were arrested and 32 injured during celebrations in Belgrade after Yugoslavia's victory $18,000 is how much it costs to have a proper wedding in Shanghai, or eight years' salary for the average urban worker, according to China Daily $6.4 billion is how much money police say eight suspects laundered in Hong Kong between 1996 and 2001 in the territory's largest-ever money laundering racket 190 nations are now part of the U.N. after Switzerland ended its long-standing policy of neutrality and joined