Puerto Rico builds a train in the sky - ALEX MARSHALL Metropolis Magazine October 2001 The startling truth about San Juan, a metropolitan area of 1.4 million people in Puerto Rico, i
In Cairo, An Old University Moves Out To The Suburbs - Egyptian Sprawl By Alex Marshall With its move to a new city in the desert, is the American University in Cairo buying sanctuary or isolation?
A Glimpse of Cuba in 1988 - It was lunch hour inside the Ministry of Commerce in old Havana. In a small cafeteria, in a building that dated back to the 1800s, workers ate baked f
In Cairo: A Mega City Confronts its Challenges - With the Middle East's martial concerns filling the news, it was a change of pace this month to visit the region's biggest city, Cairo, and examine mo