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...warm months, occasionally in the median strips of rural interstate highways. But they get through winters, or don't, foraging for barberries, rose hips, wild apples, sumac, juniper, sedges and fern. What they really like is corn wastage at winter-bound dairy farms and sunflower seeds policed from beneath suburban bird feeders...
...high school, Sprinkle played football at Lake Brantley, a suburban high school near Orlando, Florida. At the start of his senior year, he was an all-state running back with ambitions of succeeding in big-time college football...
...coming from, and it is unlikely that you're going to find as wide a pool of qualified applicants as you'll find in women's soccer," says Tim W. Wheaton, the varsity women's soccer coach. "The dominant women's soccer programs around the country come from primarily suburban, affluent, educationally-oriented areas and homes, with kids who would be applying to Harvard even if they didn't play soccer...
...Formica decor so bad. "It's a bit like Motel 6," said Mohammed Sacirbey, Bosnia's Foreign Minister. "But I like Motel 6. 'Leave the light on.'" There were complaints about not being able to leave the base--although Milosevic was spotted Friday afternoon buying shoes in suburban Dayton, surrounded by a cocoon of Secret Service agents. "I've never seen so many trench coats in my life," said Dawn Warren, manager of Regis Hairstylists. "We were thinking it must be Reba McIntyre." The country singer performed Saturday night at Wright State University...
From his drab suburban birthplace in South London, Amis did well enough at his schooling to win a place at Oxford in 1941. From that point on, the old story should have followed without a hitch: lower-middle-class lad knuckles his forehead in gratitude and takes on the accent, manners and tastes of his social betters. Amis, however, whose education was interrupted by four years of service in the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, returned to Oxford with no intention of kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship...