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[Sarah Lang]

And Canada (or at least not that often [East Van. sometimes, but
again, I would be curious to see a demographics]).

S.


On May 22, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> I haven't googled, but Europe seems to accommodate slums as well:
> "The slums of London - Glasgow - Marseilles - Cadiz - Moscow -
> etc."  Also Australia: "Yhe slums of Sydney."
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>   So, everywhere but the U.S.
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> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Erik Hoover wrote:
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>> From news reports, the slums all seem to be in the major cities of
>> Central and South America now.
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> No, they're in Africa and Asia as well. "Slums of Nairobi," for
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> gets 234 hits from the last two years in LexisNexis.
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