Word: urbanity
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...arrest brings with it a history lesson and a trip through radical America. In February 1974, a handful of urban guerrillas calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped publishing heiress Patricia Hearst in Berkeley, Calif. Two months into her abduction, Hearst became the armed S.L.A. operative "Tanya" whose image was captured by security cameras at bank heists. In May 1974, the S.L.A. was decimated after a cataclysmic shoot-out with the Los Angeles police. At about this time, police say, Soliah, actress, part-time waitress and best friend of a slain S.L.A. member, joined the movement after surviving guerrillas reluctantly...
Booby-trapping ruins. This was the nature of the Serbian killing machine, where one violent pass was not enough, where bodies could be found with 150 bullets in them. The cleansing of rich, urban centers like Pec was intended to rid the province permanently of large numbers of Kosovars and to destroy the Albanian intellectual and political culture. But Pec was also subject to a special fury. Going far beyond the brutal demands of military tactics or ethnic cleansing. Serbian forces swept through three times, wreaking destruction and expelling Albanians, including a final useless spasm of fury two weeks...
Stauffer is currently training to teach elementary school with Teach for America, a program that recruits recent college graduates to teach in underprivileged rural and urban schools for two years...
...year on record for natural disasters, the bad news is that worse is to come. "The impact of climate change brought on by global warming is being multiplied by problems such as poverty, population growth and new antibiotic-resistant diseases," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Honduran and Nicaraguan urban shanty dwellers were more vulnerable to the flooding caused by Hurricane Mitch than were their middle-class neighbors, while the burden of last year?s harsh Northern Hemisphere winter was heaviest for the 44 million Russians who live in poverty. "Even greater calamities are looming on the horizon...
...ending of social promotion the centerpiece of his much praised education agenda. His state legislature is expected to approve a bill this month that will require third-graders, beginning in 2003, to pass state reading and math tests before being promoted. Four other states approved similar measures last year. Urban districts such as Boston, Philadelphia and Seattle have vowed their own crackdowns. In New York City, 50,000 failing students in the third, fifth and eighth grades may be retained if they don't pass tests at the end of newly mandated summer school...