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Cities drive the economy: the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas, on merely 12 percent our land area, account for at least three-quarters of GDP. They are home to the best jobs and opportunities. They claim virtually all of population growth. They house our best schools and our leading cultural institutions. And they are, by any measure, greener than sparser forms of economic or residential development.
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality - Dissent Magazine
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Women and men have heart attacks in different ways. A woman is more likely to experience abdominal pain and nausea than a man, which makes it more likely that the problem will be misdiagnosed.
For centuries nature had been the unruly enemy of yeoman homesteaders; now the Vagabonds recast it as a manly respite from “feminized” city life.
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