Word: suburbanization
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...mall. Connie is like any other teenage girl in heat, only she seems much more vapid and much less interesting. When Connie argues with her mother (Mary Kay Place) and refuses to help with the dishes or paint the house, she is nothing less than despicable. Connie is a suburban rebel without a cause--she is boy-craziness and giggles, meanness and anger, but not much intelligence...
...suburban Adams County near Denver, residents have been buying bottled water and home-filtration systems since the Colorado department of health warned them in February not to drink the water unless it is boiled for five minutes. Reason: traces of TCE were in the supply. In an unusual gesture, the U.S. Army, conceding that some of the contaminants seeped from its Rocky Mountain Arsenal, agreed to put up $1 million for a tempo- rary purification system. Assistance also came from the Coors Co. of Golden, which gave away 2,200 cases of its famed Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water...
...free more than 300 of the 5,000 inmates at the Tura Prison south of Cairo. Among those liberated were scores of Islamic fundamentalists and other political prisoners who have opposed the Mubarak government. Other rebellious police, joined by gangs of civilian rioters, marched through the streets of suburban Maadi, where many diplomats and other foreign nationals live, burning cars and looting shops. Unrest also flared in the cities of Asyut and Sohag, some 200 miles south of Cairo...
Carver, who is doing his field work at suburban Carlisle High School in Concord, has learned how hard it can be to fulfill that hope. "The teachers are alive, the material is alive, but the students aren't," he says...
Hill, now 42, lives with his two children and long-suffering wife in an unnamed city under an assumed identity. They are part of the federal Witness Security Program, and as such receive $1,500 a month; they run a legitimate business and own a suburban home. For those repelled by the notion of a malefactor getting away with murder, there are two compensations: this is a true picture of crime, with its permanent sense of insecurity, its blunders, its lack of intelligence and trust. And then there is the source of Hill's current misery. "I'm an average...