As such, the country's rap and hip-hop scene has exploded in popularity in urban centers -- where internet access is highest -- as home-grown artists take advantage of the ability to share and distribute their productions more widely.

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Stu Willig of Florida Task Force 2, one of eight urban search-and-rescue teams on the scene from across the country.

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"One of the joys of urban life is the collision of uses, the chance to sit and observe the passing scene, to see and be seen, " he adds.

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Urban Light has become an iconic setting in the city of angels: It's the scene of countless wedding photos and postcards, appears in Tori Amos's "Maybe California" music video and is the backdrop of Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher's fight scene in the film No Strings Attached.

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The stories sound like urban legends, only they're true: A judge halts the distribution of a Bruce Willis movie because one scene resembles a drawing by an avant-garde architect.

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