Social criticism also was central to the writing of the newspaper writer H. L. Mencken, from the eastern city of Baltimore.

报纸作家H•L•门肯来自东部城市巴尔的摩，社会批评也是他的作品里的主流。

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As a result, Kanpur has the most widespread water poverty of any major Indian city: a third of its residents get by on less than 13 gal. (50 l) per day.

结果，坎普尔是印度城市中水荒最严重的地区：三分之一的居民每天得到的水少于13加仑(50升)。

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Then the earthquake of 1906 hit, the city was destroyed, and Starr left town for L. A.

不巧的是1906年的地震把这座城市都摧毁了，于是斯塔尔离开了这座小镇去了洛杉矶。

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The earthquake killed more than 300 and made tens of thousands homeless in the area around the city of L'Aquila.

BBC: L'Aquila quake victims demonstrate in Rome

The Apennines, the belt of mountains that runs down through the centre of Italy, is riddled with faults, and the "Eagle" city of L'Aquila has been hammered time and time again by earthquakes.

BBC: L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday pledged to build a new town to house the thousands of people left homeless in the medieval city of L'Aquila, about 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Rome but for many the problems lie in the more immediate future.

CNN: Quake survivor: I feel a deep sadness