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...very good readership; they can read between the lines and have very strong imaginative power. That is why my presentation will be about my magazine: how we reflect the voices of the ordinary youths and how ‘Teen’ pages become bridges between the youth in urban and rural areas of Burma...
...event, hosted by the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation and the Allston Brighton Green Space Advocates, featured a special presentation by Juan Jose Sanchez, a masters degree candidate at Tufts University School of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning who presented evidence from his thesis that surveyed the interest of green spaces in the Latino community of Allston Brighton...
...Kirghiz manner of life is a living picture of the age of the Patriarchs... they live almost solely for their herds." Heavy-handed Tsarist and eventually Soviet rule saw the migration of a significant population of Russians as well as the dilution of Kyrgyz culture. New tree-lined urban centers like Bishkek as well as spas along the land's salt lakes became popular destinations for Russians escaping the industrial grimness further north. As in elsewhere in Central Asia, Cyrillic is the adopted script and vodka shops abound...
...America needs more of. At least, that's what a certain strata of Americans do; another strata is hoping to buy less offal, especially in their hamburgers. They have more offal than they can handle; what they want are some of the prime rib, tenderloin and lamb racks that urban gastronomes are so over. The red state-blue state dichotomy has been laughably overdrawn, but the difference between the cutthroat race to the bottom in the fast-food business and the high-end preoccupations with cooking offal and arranging entrees with tweezers could hardly be more apparent...
...immediately upon his selection, Steele proceeded to put his foot in his mouth, selling his vision of a more pluralistic GOP in offensively stereotypical racial terminology. His greatest hits include boasting of his “off the hook” plan to reach out to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings,” offering to woo blacks into the party with “fried chicken and potato salad,” and saying President Obama’s stimulus program “is just a wish list from a lot of people who have...