Word: heartlanders
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What drew someone from such a stable background to the study of marital distress? At the end of the 1960s, Wallerstein, whose Ph.D. is in clinical psychology, moved from Topeka, Kans., in the ho-hum heartland, to swinging California. "Divorce was almost unheard of in the Midwest," she recalls. Not so on the Gold Coast, the state had just passed its pioneering no-fault divorce law. Wallerstein took a job consulting at a large community mental-health center in Marin County just as the social dam began to crack. "We started to get complaints," she says, "from nursery school teachers...
...cost, while a much larger proportion--including members of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic's ruling party--say they would prefer continued ties with Serbia, but under a different regime. "Time is on the side of a democratic Montenegro," says a Djukanovic ally, Save Paraca, mayor of Cetinje, the traditional heartland of Montenegrin nationalism...
...considered as much a part of football as Frito pies and hot chocolate. In nearly two dozen season openers earlier this month, students and religious groups came up with ingenious ways to protest--and in some instances, defy--the court's decision. For the faithful in the Christian heartland, praying on game night is the latest in a series of new constitutional maneuvers to circumvent laws that they consider to be secular oppression. Already the religious rebellion is organizing into a successful Christian resistance movement of everyday people. After an Alabama judge was sued for refusing to remove...
...Melting pot regions will become increasingly young, multiethnic and culturally vibrant," William Frey, a demographer with the University of Michigan and the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, told the Washington Post. "Heartland regions," says Frey. "will become older, more staid and less ethnically diverse...
MONROE, MICH. - President Clinton may have left Hollywood early Tuesday morning, but he arrived here to a scene orchestrated with all the panache only a seasoned show-biz operation like his White House could muster. They found a place in the heartland populated by blue-collar "working families" - this town of 23,000 next to Lake Erie is home to Monroe shock absorbers and a Ford parts plant - with a picturesque town square. The backdrop was a City Hall that could have been shipped in from Central Properties (with a church off the right), and organizers rounded up some...