Now we have sprawling residential suburbias that are well distinct from production areas and commercial areas.

The girl, my old love, the last lost time I saw her when she came to find me at a party, her drunkenly stumbling, falling, sprawling, skirt hiked, eyes veined red, swollen with tears, her shame, her dishonor.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay. As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.

That message resonates with many Gujaratis, who are proud to be reminded of a nationally admired native son, and with much of India s urban middle class, whose members yearn for a strong leader to cut through the confusion and indecision of a sprawling country s messy democracy.

ISTANBUL The small park in Taksim Square in the sprawling metropolis of Istanbul is one of the few green spaces left in the city center. On May 28, a handful of Turkish environmentalists started a peaceful protest against a redevelopment plan for the park that would replace the greenery with a replica of an Ottoman era army barracks, a shopping mall, and apartments.

The new strategy that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been promoting to staunch the upward trend of narco trafficking related murders which leaked Mexican government reports put at more than 22,000 since late 2006 is to build stronger, more resilient communities. Ciudad Juárez, a sprawling Mexican border town that is now the homicide capital of the world, would have to be high on the list.