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When James Stockard started work as an urban planner, he thought all he needed to know about a neighborhood in order to draft a construction plan was its average income and price of a home...
...what is it that has driven up tax revenues so dramatically over the past couple of years? "It's actually fairly clear," says the dean of America's tax-policy geeks, the Urban Institute's C. Eugene Steuerle. "It's just the increasingly unequal distribution of income." That is, the federal deficit has been shrinking because the rich have been getting richer. This is not a development the President is likely to brag about the next time he makes a speech about the economy. But, hey, it pays the bills...
...being "a reliable choirmaster"--but Suzzy and the kids prefer the excitement and entertainment of evangelical preachers. Christianity, especially Evangelicalism, is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else on the planet. Promising riches not just in death but here on earth, the churches often provide Africa's urban poor their one chance to hope. For Suzzy's third-born child, that's especially true...
...have suddenly appeared, transforming everyday life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable to deal with...
...officers had to be called. And on February 27, a man was arrested by HUPD for allegedly piggybacking into the Malkin Athletic Center, and charged with trespassing and assault and battery of a police officer.Students and administrators say that the trespassing incidents have exposed the potential dangers of an urban campus, and some wonder whether students are becoming too lenient about whom they let into their house.CLOSED DOORSAccording to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, the number of burglaries in residences last year was down from previous years. In 2006, there were forty-two burglaries in a residence, a 52 percent...