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...lost jobs since 1992, the locals are on Horowitz's side: they'd rather raze the farm and build a warehouse. "We don't need some dingdong like Daryl Hannah going on TV and saying people need fresh air," says city councilwoman Jan Perry. "They also need jobs." An urban planner, Perry points out, would spread the community gardening money around the whole city instead of jamming it all into one area. Plus, Perry is intently focused on getting a soccer field out of all of this, which Horowitz conceded...
...skilled and hungry generation of information workers. Result? The offshore outsourcing revolution and downward pressure on global production costs that keeps inflation under control. Equally powerful are the ultra-low-cost emerging-market manufacturing bases, led by China. With more than 1 billion people set to enter the urban labor markets of China, India, Brazil and Indonesia in the next 20 years, all those pressures on prices will only intensify...
...what binds the new young conservatives? What links the urban libertarians, the exurban social conservatives and the kids like Custer who can't easily be labeled? After interviewing dozens of young conservatives over the past five months, I think the glue is more cultural than political: paradoxically, these kids see themselves as campus rebels. They believe they are "the new counterculture," as YAF official Patrick Coyle says--ridiculed by liberal professors, shouted down by student leftists and betrayed by a Republican Party afraid of alienating moderates...
...streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse - "a way of modernizing our corporate image," explains Rubén Holguera, its deputy mayor and councillor for urban development. The town's population has grown to 70,000, many of them well-salaried young people who grew up with the town. They still go all-out during Cristo de los Remedios, but now there are plenty of other things to do during the rest of the year...
...treat him like gold dust. We have to work harder and spend more money on publicity." The influx of foreign cash has its darker side, too. Arrests earlier this year of 25 people in Marbella - including the mayor, her deputy mayor, two city councillors and the former chief of urban planning - offer a sobering glimpse of the potential corruption such a hot market can breed. Charges (which are denied) include influence peddling and kickbacks that politicians allegedly turned around into helicopters, thoroughbred horses and art collections. For the first time in modern Spanish history, the government ordered the dissolution...