Word: suburbanization
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Speaking of ganga, the night atmosphere in Negril has quite a different feel. The beach at Negril fills with beach bums, hustlers, and prostitutes who, mixed with the tourists, listen to reggae and puff joints, a scene more than one suburban teenager has imagined while listening to Marley or Jimmy Cliff. The most ubiquitous dealer on the beach goes by the name of Doctor Fabulous. "Da Doctor" is a self-assured smooth talker, a "Rastafarian who smoke da ganga anywhere, anytime." Along with his potentsmelling crop, Fabulous deals out lines like "Da doctor needs his patient...
Hyde's stubbornness and common sense spring partly from his hometown. His suburban Chicago district is just a few miles from the Howard Street apartment where he grew up. One flight up from a saloon, the flat was all the family could afford during the Depression, as his father barely held on to his job collecting nickels from pay phones. His parents were Democrats by default. "If you lived in Chicago in the '30s, you were a Democrat," says longtime friend Philip Corboy. The stronger influence in Hyde's life was Catholicism. Coaxed by his mother, he attended St. George...
...their approach, it's surprising that Disney officials didn't call the place "Utopialand" and be done with it. But in choosing the tamer name of "Celebration," perhaps they sensed that the community would eventually have to make a transition from a town planner's dream to a regular suburban society, with real pitfalls and real problems. But can a place like Celebration, designed by the designers of fantasy worlds, truly succeed as a free-standing community...
...packed his board with branding-savvy executives from Hasbro, Intuit and Starbucks. But everyone finds working on the auction sites, well, different. Auction Universe chief executive officer Larry Schwartz recalls how someone tried to sell a live kidney for $250,000 before the company yanked the organ off-line. Suburban mom Kathy Barnett of Hoffman Estates, Ill., says she buys "garage-sale doodads" and quickly resells them on eBay: "I paid 10[cents] for a 1930s cookbook and auctioned it for $10." Ray Geeck of Lake Panasoffkee, Fla., began casually hawking dolls from his home and claims to have grossed...
Even without the scandal's static, voters might have more trouble than usual drawing distinctions between the two parties. Democrats have consciously fielded a more conservative team of candidates, and Republicans are downplaying the social issues that have cost them votes in the suburban districts, where the most important battles are being fought. In Oregon, Wu and Bordonaro, neither of whom has ever held office, are jostling each other for the middle. Bordonaro, 30, having run in the 1996 G.O.P. primary as a Newt Gingrich acolyte, now soft-pedals her personal antiabortion stand and her opposition to gun control...