Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program's coordinators, Katherine S. Newman, Ford professor of urban studies at the Kennedy School, said this program capitalizes on the expertise of Harvard's faculty...
Harshbarger recalled his earliest days as a volunteer when he discussed working in an East Harlem church on a Rockefeller Public Service Fellowship after graduation nearly 35 years ago. He said he was inspired by the efforts of the residents of the decaying urban community--residents who, according to Harshbarger, "refused to be beaten down...
...discovery of a huge Windows NT virus that wreaked havoc in the computer networks at MCI WorldCom over the weekend the first manifestation of a new era of cyber-paranoia? This at least was no urban legend of virus-bearing e-mail that will trash your hard drive if you read it: As ZDnet reports, at least 10 sites and thousands of servers and workstations at MCI were crippled by a bug that disables executable files and locks users out of .DOC and .XLF files. And although the origin of the virus remains unknown, the fact that it was timed...
...Urban Nutcracker is a perfectly serious work of choreographic art--Chase sees to that--but like much of what happens at the Cleveland School of the Arts, it is also an exercise in human reclamation, carried out on the tightest of budgets. Though the plaster is crumbling and the radiators are as old as fossils, these classrooms crackle with an exuberance no amount of poverty can discourage. Two-thirds of the students here come from families on public assistance, yet three-quarters of the students go on to some form of higher education. "Some will become dancers," Chase says. "Others...
JOHN WATERS, actor, director, writer: "Unlike other urban centers where everybody is too cool to have sex, Baltimore is a more erotically spontaneous city, and that can lead to, well, annoying and nationally embarrassing consequences...