In the end, the expectations from the media and our own painfully recent history appear to have created a paper tiger, where worries of violence in the streets have created an environment eager to find it.
The first basic truth they ignore is this: humans are a curious species from birth, eager to master our environment.
This "travel presence" is one of more open awareness, sensitive and responsive to the environment, and eager to learn from all directions and any number of sources.
In 1958, Kusama moved to New York, eager to escape an environment she saw as "too small, too servile, too feudalistic and too scornful of women".
In fact, New Yorkers, like most city dwellers, are discerning inhabitants of their environment, as their eager use of pleasant public spaces proves.
An October 10th poll found a record 60% of Americans willing to sack and replace every member of Congress, including their own.Into that combustible environment come politicians eager to portray their opponents as flouting legal norms.
And for the last year, as a building biology consultant (healthydwellings.com), he has been seeing couples with autistic children, couples with infants who are eager to make a "safe" environment for their young families and clients like Gary Tuerack, 38, who lives in a Hoboken apartment building that recently installed cellphone antennas on the roof and was worried about his health.
Dena (Dakota Fanning) is a recent college dropout eager to fight for the environment, using her family's wealth to bankroll the scheme and her fresh and innocent face as a useful cover for activities like buying ingredients for explosives.
She can work in upstart environments, she's eager to learn and can adapt to change.
Americans of all ages are increasingly eager to live in urban environments: a smaller, rebuilt Detroit could eventually thrive.
