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| | Ithaca, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Ithaca, a picturesque lakeside college town of thirty thousand in upstate New York, has long had a reputation that sets it apart, a reputation that is decidedly "alternative"—supported by a disproportionate number of progressive businesses, organizations, and initiatives that challenge the mainstream. |
 | | Ithaca proper is nestled in a valley, with two hilltop institutions of higher learning that bring affluence, sophistication, and privilege to a town surrounded by a large, depressed, and underserved rural countryside, the northern end of Appalachia. |
 | | The population of greater Ithaca, while remarkably diverse, is still polarized by race, class, lifestyle, education, and splits between town versus gown, country versus city, business interests versus environmental concerns, and other categories of difference that challenge progress in many American communities. |
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