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Negotiating with the zombie
By: David A. Smith Time to negotiate with the zombie? Bankrupt county speaks with decaying tongue? Instead of blasting its head off? Do you feel … undead? Except, quite possibly, you can’t –...
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Urbanization’s side effects: Part 1, Air, water, food, and flies
By: David A. Smith Urbanization: A condition of rapid expansion brought on by growth in previously undeveloped or latent economies, resulting in adolescent. An adolescent phase of human society...
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Urbanization’s side effects: Part 2, you should not raise children in Delhi
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Side effects include: Overloaded infrastructure; proliferating informal settlements; emergence of alternate-power structures (cf. gangs);...
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Urbanization’s side effects: Part 3, Irreversible lung damage from poisoned air
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Symptoms: Air pollution, water pollution, painful crime nodes; traffic jams; periodic rashes of civil disturbance;...
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Urbanization’s side effects: Part 4, I hope so, anyway
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith Recommended treatment: Topical ointments of in-situ slum upgrading; anti-corruption boosters via self-help...
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