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...number of roadways are in need of reconstruction,” said Kathy Watkins of the city’s Community Development Department, who is overseeing the project. “We are looking at making basic infrastructure improvements...
...then, maybe we shouldn’t be. The internet satisfies everyone’s basic need to communicate and to share. It lets anyone that wants reach out and be heard, gives us an outlet for our fears and represents a waiting ear for our troubles. Surely, some people always wanted their own soap opera or a movie about their life, some way to leave their mark on the world. The ability to carve out a private section of cyberspace and render it your own in a personal way is a powerful thing indeed. And as for the rest...
...warlord's troops except its own singularity. It was the exact reverse of a "uniform"; it was a portable spectacle. Its shape was not determined by the kind of functional rules that governed the making of a samurai's main emblem, the katana or long sword, whose basic form was fixed by the 13th century and did not alter much in the next 600 years. Instead, the helmet--his secondary emblem of power--could mean anything its owner wanted. It was as personal, in that sense, as the poetry whose writing was also one of the skills of an educated...
Views of jealousy tend to follow changing attitudes in the popular culture. In the 1950s jealousy was widely viewed as a healthy expression of determined love and in the 1960s, as a pathological obstacle to sexual freedom and self-love. Nowadays the emotion comes in three basic versions...
...Australians have a fairly positive image of China and a curiosity to know more about it. But there is a distinct cultural gap. Basic questions pop up all the time that people don't quite know how to answer. Is China still a communist country? Yes, and it retains many of the hallmarks of a totalitarian state. Can people travel freely from China? That depends on where they live in China. It also helps if they choose an Approved Destination (Australia and New Zealand were among the first countries to be granted this status). In such a poor country, where...