Word: suburbanized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...agents moved in, powered past 50 protesters and moved swiftly through the house. The boy was found in the arms of Donato Dalrymple, one of his fisherman rescuers, and was taken without violent incident. He was flown to the nation's capital and then sequestered at a house in suburban Maryland where he and his father got reacquainted (above) and waited for the courts to determine their fate. Finally, on June 28, the Supreme Court declined to consider the case, thus leaving in effect a decision respecting the father's wishes. The Gonzalez family headed for the airport. Their plane...
...salaries about half as high as the public school average). But tuition at even the least expensive nonsectarian private schools is more than $5,000. Clarence Gilmore, 30, a fire fighter with two children at St. Adalbert's, says, "I would love to send my kids to a private, suburban school" that isn't religious, "but the prices are too high." And he far prefers St. Adalbert's to the public schools...
...been shot. His lead had dropped to 193 votes--yet he didn't watch the hand counts start back up on TV; he wasn't constantly on the phone needling aides for updates throughout the morning. He took a long walk. But by midafternoon he was driving his Chevy Suburban around the 1,600-acre ranch when campaign chairman Don Evans called with word of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to shut the recounts down. "Great news," said Bush. "Fantastic." The original decision to petition the Supremes three weeks ago had been his; some advisers warned that he might...
...school on sprawling suburban acreage that's wired for online learning might seem more conducive to education than a century-old institution. But in a new report, the National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that older schools, if renovated and upgraded, can be just as vital. The trust is interested in the preservation of the buildings as historic landmarks, but its report also argues that the decline of small, neighborhood schools has impaired our sense of community and led to large, impersonal campuses far from home. That's why most kids today can't walk or bike to school...
...line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both in the same place; a saga of innocence being continuously lost...