Cairo's suburbs offer life American-style
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CAIRO -- It's sandstorm season in Cairo, when the desert wind known as the Khamaseen seems determined to reclaim the city.
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A new study shows that people who live in areas with a high degree of suburban sprawl are more likely to report chronic health problems, such as high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches, and breathing difficulties, than those who live in urban areas.
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Community weeklies, as diverse as the borough itself, are growing â and attracting the attention of the big dailies.
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CHICAGO -- One might think Chicago already qualifies as a "global city."
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A little travel has gone a long way toward changing perceptions in Gaza.
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âThe Year My Parents Went on Vacationâ is most seductive when it focuses on the details of daily life in the lower-middle-class SÃ£o Paulo neighborhood Bom Retiro.
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They range from surgeons and scholars to illiterate refugees from some of the world's worst hellholes &#151; a dizzyingly varied stream of African immigrants to the United States. More than 1 million strong and growing, they are enlivening America's cities and altering how the nation confronts its racial identity.
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On a crisp afternoon, Ethel Lawrence Boulevard looks like any other street in the comfortable suburb of Mount Laurel. Kids play football in front of gray Cape Cod apartments
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Under the shadow of a towering minaret in a Muslim enclave, veiled women stroll, shiny new cars line the streets and houses are being expanded.
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Eager for legislative independence and a sense of identity, some suburbs in Georgia are voting to become cities of their own.
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Architect Shigeru Ban doesn't settle when it comes to bringing the outside in. The two-layer facade on his Metal Shutter Houses, a condo building planned for New York's Chelsea district, will let residents become one with the city.
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New Yorkers pride themselves on their ability to handle almost anything: Blackouts. Sweltering subway stations. Obscenely small apartments at ridiculously high costs.
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Once the homely cousin of Broadway and Columbus Ave., a stretch of Amsterdam Ave. on Manhattanâs Upper West Side is now demanding attention in its own right.
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The Netsâ planned move to Brooklyn has been the political and cultural hot button issue of a sprawling community.
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A new study suggests that people living in sprawling suburbs are more prone to chronic physical health problems than people living in compact urban areas.
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On any other day but this one, the village of Ahmad al-Hamadi, on the green banks of the Euphrates, would be an idyllic place. In the rich, agricultural gardens
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The traffic in Cairo, and the army of police officers who try to manage it, tell much about modern Egypt.