Word: urbanity
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Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman has finally been indicted for conspiring with 14 of his followers to wage what prosecutors last week called a "war of urban terrorism." The group allegedly orchestrated February's World Trade Center bombing and plotted to attack other New York City landmarks. Though at first the radical cleric could not be directly linked to the acts, a federal grand jury indicted him under a seldom-used sedition...
TIME has learned that according to one computer run, the plan would slow net employment growth by as many as 1 million jobs over the next five years. Other Administration forecasts -- based on computer simulations of the U.S. economy at various government departments and the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank on contract to the White House -- have produced lower estimates of job losses, sources said. But they do not support Clinton's claims of job gains...
...coming 'round the other side of the mountains is a disappointed family fleeing with relief back to the urban energy of the Pacific Coast, right? Wrong. On the other side is Peter Northrop, 38, a Connecticut-born Chevron oil computer programmer in Denver. In July 1992, Northrop was given 48 hours to agree to a transfer to San Ramon, California, about 30 miles east of Oakland. He and his wife Susan, 37, agonized and then opted to stay put in Denver with their two small children. It took Northrop four months to land a new job with Diners Club...
...France. In last week's Science, they put forth evidence that the empire was undone by a combination of climatic catastrophes. First a volcanic eruption blanketed the region in ash. Then a drought, which eventually lasted 300 years, crippled the farming communities on which the cities depended, forcing urban dwellers to abandon their empty granaries and silent temples. Refugees migrated to southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq), which had escaped the disaster. But the unexpected influx of people from the north so strained the region's resources that the Akkadian empire fell to neighboring hordes...
...excavating the ancient Akkadian city of Shekhna in what is now Syria, Weiss and his colleagues determined that the urban center, once a thriving home for 10,000 people, was deserted for three centuries. One layer, which they dated to 2200 B.C., revealed the crumbling walls of a ghost town. It also provided some important clues about the weather. "Ancient soils bear a climatic signature," Weiss explains. "In a dry climate, you see very little earthworm activity and lots of loose silt, for example...