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The same goes for urban beautification programs, such as the famous "Five B's" of the eighties—bricks, banners, bandstands, bollards, and berms—that now grace many an abandoned downtown.

Walkable City

Jeff Speck

When she called her mother and told her about the incident, her mother actually sided with Jerry, telling Sophie it was a funny joke and she shouldn’t be mad.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

GIs used an affectionate term for Japanese men: sonny or sonny boy. To many, that surely sounded condescending. But to strivers like Ibuka and Morita, it sounded like money. We “thought of ourselves as ‘sonny-boys’ in those days,” Morita noted. “We were little boys in the business of sound.” They knocked off an n and trademarked the name: Sony.

How to Hide an Empire

Daniel Immerwahr

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