Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services since January, previously served as the first woman to head a Big Ten University as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She served from 1977 to 1980 in the Carter administration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...California community group called Hands Across Watts is holding a day-long "Gangs United for Peace Town Hall Summit," at which leaders from the Crips, the Bloods and other gangs will talk about ways to end inner-city violence. Also starting on April 29, the Ohio-based Council for Urban Peace and Justice will hold a four-day-long conference in Kansas City, Missouri, that is expected to draw more than 100 former and current gang members from 20 cities. The highlight of the two events will occur when gang leaders from both meetings are linked via satellite...
...calls for blacks, Asians and Hispanics to unite. On Message to the Soldier, he raps, "Check the history books, son/ Black leaders die young/ They tell us that our words are scary/ They're revolutionary." With his gangsta posturing, Ice-T is far from a role model for urban youth, but his real goal is to expose suburbia to inner-city anger. "I'll tell you what we did," he raps on the title track. "We stole your kids...
...result our lives consist of "empty, vague, and performative" emotions. The immediate plot describes how the barbaric loner Frank (Robert Feldstein) forces himself on the civilized society of the idealic couple, Ernest (David Shafer) and Jane (Wynne D. Love). With incessant, nonsensical conversation on topics ranging from urban renewal projects to his illustrious career as a toll both operator, Frank intrudes upon Ernest and Jane's weekly picnic at the beach...
...rest of the U.S. Whenever California speaks, the marketplace is compelled to listen; the state is the single biggest car market in the world, accounting for as much as 15% of U.S. sales. There is also the undeniable fact that Americans, particularly in the more polluted and congested urban areas, are driving themselves to death. As much as 80% of all urban smog and a quarter of the nation's total carbon dioxide are caused by engines burning fossil fuels...