Tag: alike

Austin and San Antonio are more alike than you think. Here’s how.

The message came through loud and clear: “Don’t Austin my San Antonio!” The first wave of responses to my Sept. 12 column on the emerging Austin-San Antonio mega-metro — alternately dubbed San Antonio-Austin — rejected the alliance emphatically. The cities are so different, the idea of pairing them seemed an insult to the older, larger […]

Hunger hits animals and people alike at Gaza zoo

In Rafah zoo, dozens of destitute Gazans are camping between the cages where starving monkeys, parrots and lions cry out for food 12 weeks into Israel’s offensive. Nearly all Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes under a bombardment that has reduced much of the territory to rubble. Many now cram the […]