Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trend doesn't exist. Baseball fans are as much turned off by the way the sport is mis-run as they are attracted to the game. The number of people attending baseball games as a percentage of the total urban population is not increasing, despite what those who run baseball would have us believe...
...long ago, many Americans dismissed the slaughter as an inner-city problem. But now the crackle of gunfire echoes from the poor, urban neighborhoods to the suburbs of the heartland. Omaha, with a population of 340,000, is just an average Midwestern city, which is why the story of its armed youth shows how treacherous the problem has become. The Omaha neighborhood of Benson, a tidy grid of suburban-style homes on the northwest side, has been taken by surprise. Three dozen shaken parents and troubled teenagers gathered on a rainy Tuesday night in May at the Benson Community Center...
...hospital boasts of establishing the first independent physical therapy department in 1914 and culturing the polio virus in 1949. Today, its staff is dealing with urban violence as it affects children's public health, operating one of the world's largest centers for cystic fibrosis research and treatment and running regional centers for kidney and bone marrow transplants...
Morrill graduated from Columbia in 1987, where she majored in urban studies...
Starting last Friday, much of America was in the middle of it as Operation Rescue kicked off a 10-day marathon titled "Cities of Refuge." The campaign featured speeches, rallies and pickets in seven urban areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Cleveland, Ohio; Philadelphia; Dallas-Fort Worth; San Jose, California; Jackson, Mississippi; and the area around Melbourne. Among its goals, explained spokeswoman Wendy Wright, is to ensure that "anyone in the continental United States ((is)) within a day's drive of a rescue." To pro- choicers, the implication is chilling: the transformation of abortion- clinic picketing from an activity for incensed...