Word: urbaneness
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...Peonies and tomatoes were her home. When my family moved from Manhattan to a well-heeled neighborhood on the fringes of urban Cincinnati, it was my grandmother who braved the mosquito and chigger colonies of our hilly backyard and put trowel to the clay-packed soil. She drove wooden stakes into the ground for the tomato vines, and bared small circles for the peonies. The garden was complete with a compost pile, and when turned out with a shovel, spilled dark black soil and worms. It was as if a patch of her hometown of Zilpo, Kentucky had been...
...said. “I don’t think that’s what the sport’s about.” Nevertheless, he said he expects the line to do well. So far, Status Flow has found distribution online and with mid-Atlantic boutique Urban Chic. Alexandra R. Ebright, store manager and merchandiser at the chain’s Baltimore location, said that sales have been “great.” Ebright said she already sees the line as cornering an unexpected market: “It has sold really well to our guy customers...
Courtside Celtics tickets and luxurious weekend getaways were on the auction block at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub last night for the Phillips Brooks House Association’s sixth annual Auction to Benefit the Summer Urban Program (SUP). The event featured a silent auction as well as a live auction conducted by guest auctioneer and musician Livingston Taylor—the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor. With big ticket items including trips to San Francisco and tickets to games at Fenway garnering high bids, PBHA received considerable funding for its community service programs. The night?...
...find a lot of people who don't like Arlen Specter, but you can't find anyone who doesn't respect him." - David Urban, Specter's former chief of staff (Time, April 14, 2006) (See an illustrated calendar of Obama's first 100 days...
...Suglia at the Harvard School of Public Health has shown that adolescents who have witnessed violence may be more likely to suffer from adverse health effects later in life. The study, which observed 15 boys and 28 girls ranging from 7-13 years old, was conducted in an unidentified urban neighborhood in Boston. The study aimed to gauge the stress impact of exposure to violence by testing the levels of cortisol—a hormone that is secreted at higher levels in high-stress situations—in each of the subjects. Suglia and his team took saliva samples...