Word: urbaneness
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...remarkable ability to beautify even the bleakest of urban and professional settings. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Holyoke Center, where a series of prints redefines the otherwise drab space occupied by the southern elevator foyer. The university has filled the alcove with an exhibition of photographs by Harvard Law School Professor emeritus Henry Steiner, on display until September 23. While the title “From Film to Digital: Fresh Images Over Decades” may give false promise of an innovative look at the new age of digital photography, it still proves to be a thought...
...August 2008 - a tenfold increase since 2006. While that proliferation is impressive, as with much else in the health-care system it doesn't necessarily mean equal access to care. Clinics exist in only 33 states, and in those that have them, an overwhelming 88.4% are in urban areas. Just 10.6% of the U.S. population lives within a five-minute drive of a clinic, and 28.7% lives 10 minutes away. The South is better served than the Midwest and West, and all three regions are better served than the East. Just five states (Florida, California, Texas, Minnesota and Illinois...
...ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old urban culture that covered some 300,000 square miles in modern-day Pakistan and northwestern India. Digs at major sites such as Mohenjo-daro and Harappa revealed a sophisticated society whose towns had advanced sanitation, bathhouses and gridlike city-planning. Evidence of trade with Egypt and Sumer in Mesopotamia, as well as the presence of mining interests as far as Central Asia, suggests that the fertile Indus River...
...With their country being wealthy, Libyans are relatively happy - even though they have little free speech and no democratic elections. Health care and education are free, and the prices of staple foods are controlled. Unlike Libya's neighbors, Egypt and Algeria, the country has "no big urban proletariat with very little money," says Dalton, who sees little threat to Gaddafi's continued rule, despite his astonishingly long reign. (See pictures of Africa...
...gasoline for about 30 cents a gallon, the benefits of the gasoline subsidy, as well as subsidies for cooking gas and electricity, were overwhelmingly going to wealthier Iranians, simply because they spent more on consumption. In 2005, the World Bank estimated that 94% of Iran's energy subsidies in urban areas were benefiting the nonpoor. In other words, those who least needed their consumption subsidized were getting most of the benefits. In the run-up to the 2005 presidential elections, all the candidates across the political spectrum, including the subsequent winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, promised to implement a reform...