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...local union representative, part-time fireman and possessor of a pickup truck with a snowplow mounted up-front. Playgirl would present him nestled on a bearskin rug, Budweiser in hand. Since Ted represents the worker and the frozen small-town tundra, and Lucy represents the Man and despicable urban living - seriously, did Governor Sarah Palin have a hand in this script? - it's preordained that they will despise each other. For a few scenes, anyway. If only they'd introduce betting counters at the multiplex. I'd like to have been able to gamble on the chances that...
...Slumdog's major players--three sets of three kids, playing Jamal, Salim and Latika at different ages--are all Indian (though Patel was born and raised in Britain). Even if redemption awaits Jamal, the violence he and Salim witness, or perpetrate, is as gritty as that in the Brazilian urban classic City of God (2002). And with a third of its dialogue in Hindi, Slumdog would come closer than any top Oscar winner has to being a foreign-language film...
These health workers are part of Women Health Volunteers (WHV), a network of 100,000 women who help the government with health and hygiene in urban areas like Tehran, one of the Middle East's biggest metropolises. Rapid urbanization as well as galloping population growth have swelled the city's citizenry from about 1.5 million in 1956 to close to 8 million in the city proper and pushed out its boundaries into a vast metropolitan area that's home to an additional 6 million...
...pictures of urban farming...
...Maliki since the 1980s, when both lived in Syria. "He has become self-assured, and very decisive." Those qualities were burnished in November, when Maliki overcame considerable opposition within Iraq's parliament to sign an agreement with the U.S. that requires the withdrawal of American combat troops from most urban areas this summer, and from Iraq altogether by 2011. Some factions wanted a faster withdrawal, others insisted on a delay. (Maliki rarely meets Western journalists; his office didn't respond to TIME's repeated interview requests...