| Slumming it is better than bulldozing it
This is going to be a big year for the wrecking ball. By the time it's over, two of the world's most famous neighbourhoods will be gone, replaced with scaffolds, cement mixers and the sort of well-meaning mistakes that have scarred the cities of the West for decades. The photo accompanying this article was taken on Christmas Eve in the sprawling Mumbai slum of Nehru Nagar. On an eerily quiet warm winter evening, photographer Subhash Kumar Sharma watched as a self-built, decades-old neighbourhood containing tens of thousands of people emptied itself out in advance of wrecking equipment. High-rise office buildings and carefully planned public-housing towers, some already built, are replacing this old, peaceful, rambunctiously squalid neighbourhood. This is merely a foretaste of the demolitions to come this year in the world's most densely populated city.
A race against time
A newspaper of which Bakri is editor-in-chief plans to call for a gathering in Cairo's Journalists' Syndicate next week to protest against the visit. In Bahrain, university students also have called for protests. The visit also has been overshadowed by the campaign to succeed him. Bush is due to hand over to the winner of November's general election in January 2009. The politics of symbolism are no longer enough to improve his unusually low approval ratings. "I fully understand that there's going to be some painful political compromises," he said this week. "I fully understand that there's going to be some tough negotiations, and the role of the US is to help in those negotiations. "It's essential that people understand America cannot dictate the terms of what a state will look like.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Runner," but the next generation of the MyVu personal media viewer is meant to improve the experience of watching video on the tiny screen of an iPod. There are two built-in screens - one for each eye - as well as integrated Ultimate Ears earbuds. The resulting output makes the user feel as if he or she is sitting in front of a big screen TV and not on a bus or plane. The addition of a sunglass lens is meant to make them more versatile and, ultimately, make them a little less nerdy looking. Krups Beertender $399; williams-sonoma.com Teaming with the brewmeisters at Heineken, Krups offers this coffee-maker-sized beer tap that serves up mini draft kegs of Heiney. Once the keg is inserted into the machine, it's cooled to the appropriate temperature and can be poured just like it would be at a bar.
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Obama: Beware 'Reverse Bradley'
I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas." Has Rove accidentally ripped the mask off the vicious social inegalitarianism of Bush's immigration plan, as Mark Krikorian argues, or does a more benign interpretation of his comments save him? It's not like he hasn't said this sort of thing before, apparently. Indeed, his June, 2006 version makes the probable context of last week's remark quite clear--and Rove's not simply "saying that every parent wants their child to have a high-skilled, high-wage job," as the White House's damage control suggests. Here's the 2006 pitch: "Now frankly," Rove said during a riff on the temporary worker part of President Bush's immigration reform plan, "I don't want my kid digging ditches. I don't want my kid slinging tar.
Share Your Summer of Love Memories
"We were enamored of the notion that the times were changing," says Bob Weir about the Summer of Love. "We were well aware that we the tip of a pretty massive iceberg of population preponderance of youth and that we were in some regards the face of the youth culture movement." The Chronicle looks back on the Summer of Love 40 years later with a four-part series this week. What do you remember about the summer of '67? Did it make a difference in your life? Did it have a major impact on American culture? You can share your thoughts two ways: by commenting below, or by calling (415)777-6268 and sharing your story in an Open Mic podcast. Posted By: Eve Batey (Email) | May 20 2007 at 12:00 AM .
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