Sentences with phrase «poorest cities of the world»

The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (a Roman Catholic order) do amazing work in some of the poorest cities of the world, for example.

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'» «The problem facing the West,» Pamuk wrote, «is not only to discover which terrorist is preparing a bomb in which tent, which cave, or which street of which city, but also to understand the poor and scorned and «wrongful» majority that does not belong to the Western world.»

Boyagoda deftly traces the manifold careers of Richard Neuhaus, from the stringencies of a Depression boyhood (in 1936, when Richard was born, his father made do on $ 81 a month) through a poor inner - city church in Brooklyn to the corridors of, if not power, exactly, at least influence in the world's omphalos, Manhattan.

It is a national disgrace that the infant mortality rate in the poorer sections of our major cities is as high as the less - advanced Third World countries.

After such a poor season by their standards the year previous and the complete lack of European football on offer, it was questionable whether United would manage to attract the world class talent they so obviously craved, but they managed to get their man despite interest from PSG and City.

As Uber has aggressively pushed back at the mayor, running slick ads accusing Mr. de Blasio of killing jobs for poor minorities, City Hall has expanded their criticism, flaying Uber for their lax workplace protections and regulatory fights with cities across the world.

Indeed, the toilet of the future may be needed most by poor communities swelling on the edges of the world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural world's large cities, as more rural dwellers crowd into urban centers, said Randy Strash, senior manager at the nonprofit World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on the rural poor.

Russia just like any other country in the world has rich and poor areas, in many of the larger Russian cities Russian women lead very comfortable lives, often with a good career.

Israeli flags are seen near the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Why on earth would we allow the world's poor, unskilled, desperate and dependent masses to come into our country, while we're $ 20 trillion

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The young heir to a vast Mexico City banking empire runs away from the cold, corrupt, racist, money - driven, super-elite, super-rich, classist world into which he was born, takes a wrong turn down a wrong road, and finds himself stranded in a poor, remote, beach community where he experiences a love at first sight with an exotically beautiful local girl — one that will place him — and her — in grave danger at the hands of a ruthless drug lord.

Partnership Schools (PNYC) is a network of six urban Catholic schools in Harlem and the South Bronx, serving over 2,000 students from two of the poorest congressional districts in the country, in the heart of one of the richest cities in the world.

CINCINNATI — In search of a cure for ailing schools, educators and politicians from around the world have descended on this city's poorest neighborhoods, hearing of a renaissance.

Additionally, as Dede (2009) notes of River City, the digital immersion allows low - performing students especially to «build confidence in their academic abilities by stepping out of their real - world identity of poor performer academically, which shifts their frame of self reference to successful scientist in the virtual context.»

These communities need your help to sustain their way of life by setting up sustainable eco-tourism or by providing health care, education and infrastructure to the poor and needy in the many remote towns and cities of the world.

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Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, a repeat of the 1934 temblor that leveled this city.

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For the U.S. and the world, Katrina was a surprise as the world saw the failure of complete evacuation, the collapse of the levees, the inadequate rescue operations, the subsequent outmigration, and the plight of those remaining in the city, with the burden falling heaviest on the African - American, poor, aged, and infirm members of the population.

He is part of a Greek chorus of seismologists and earthquake engineers who have been warning for a long time that some of the world's biggest, fastest - growing cities are «rubble in waiting,» given the haphazard rush of construction of apartments and workplaces for mainly poor new residents.

Many of the world's cities are suffering from the concentrated use of energy services that emit air pollution, in particular from transport (but also industry, power generation etc.), while many of the poorest rural communities are particularly exposed to toxic fumes as they use polluting solid fuels to cook food and boil water.

As the world's population grows, cities swell and demand for mobility and other energy services surges, the already intolerable costs of poor air quality risk increasing dramatically.

There's a connection, he says, between the failure of the world's leaders to reach an accord at last month's Copenhagen climate summit and the fact that the capital city of one of the world's poorest nations has been reduced to rubble.

As a relatively new line of criticism coming from climate change skeptics, Myron Ebell argued that delegates from Third World countries largely appear at events such as talks in Lima just to collect a per diem payment and «shop in glamouris cities,» as phrased by the Republic Report in their article «Deniers» Latest Attack on UN Summit: Poor Countries» Delegates Show Up Just for the Per Diem.»

So I wonder why the world's greatest architects rush to build Manhattans in deserts without water, that are uninhabitable without air conditioning, that as Ouroussoff notes, could turn into «a miniaturized version of a city of glittering towers built for the global elite, barricaded against the urban poor and its makeshift shantytowns.»

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.