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PARIS The Damier Graphite Renzo ($1,100) is a new urban take on the classic Louis Vuitton print and already in demand...
...inaccessible with even the sturdiest of four-wheel drive vehicles. There are only 2,400 miles of road in Haiti, which is the size of Maryland; and of those roads, just 600 miles are paved. There are also only 10,000 doctors, most of whom are located in the urban centers...
Joseph Loconte, visiting professor at Pepperdine University and a former Heritage Foundation fellow, suggests that you find a church that is actively engaged with struggling local communities. That can be surprisingly hard to find here, where a number of affluent churches choose to remain somewhat isolated from their urban surroundings. Loconte thinks that the nondenominational Washington Community Fellowship on Capitol Hill has the right orientation. "It's a church whose politics is difficult to tell and whose engagement to the community is real," he says. Loconte also says you might look for a church that is involved with the STEP...
...closest California has come to an "urban" earthquake in recent decades was the 6.7 magnitude 1994 quake in Northridge, a suburb roughly 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Parking structures collapsed, overpasses fell down, 9,000 people were injured but only 57 people were killed. Again, most of the shaking occurred in the mountains...
...near a mosque killed four people in Malegaon city near Mumbai. Among the accused is a Hindu nun with links to the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party and its various sister organizations. The investigation is already uncovering a seemingly larger network of Hindu extremist activity in western India's urban centers of Nagpur, Indore and Pune that could help unravel unsolved terror strikes. "Let us not forget history," says political analyst Mahesh Rangarajan. "Mahatma Gandhi's assassin was a Hindu extremist...