Word: exodusing
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Across the country, groups with Ohmer's spirit are leading a middle-class exodus out of the 90210 lifestyle. For example, more than 100 U.S. cities today host "simplicity circles" affiliated with the Cornell University-created Seeds of Simplicity program based in Los Angeles. Then there is the Center for a New American Dream, a Takoma Park, Md., group whose motto is "More fun, less stuff!" Says director Betsy Taylor: "This isn't just about unspoiling kids. It's about reclaiming our kids from a toxic commercial culture that has spun out of control...
...Feyenoord. In Italy, A.C. Parma paid league champion A.S. Roma a cool $26 million for the services of Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old midfielder, now firmly established in Italian football, previously played for Perugia. Although sorry to see their favorites go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager ArsÈne Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995 to '96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well...
...willingness to take on his party's anti-immigration wing--and to the reality of two entwined economies. In the past 15 years, entire sectors of American business have become dependent on low-wage illegal laborers to wash dishes, pour foundations, plant impatiens and butcher cattle. And the exodus has had a stranger impact south of the border: rural Mexico has hollowed out so dramatically that many villages are void of men and the agrarian economy is failing. But the workers up north are sending so much money back home--$8 billion a year by most estimates--that these "remittances...
...Although sorry to see their favorite players go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995-96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. He's betting Inamoto?who has "good technique and good vision"?will be that player...
...first time since The Exodus, professional baseball has returned. The New York Mets recently moved their Single-A minor league affiliate to a new Coney Island facility and renamed it the Brooklyn Cyclones. Memories of the Dodgers have prompted an incredibly warm reception for the low-level club. Three-fourths of the season sold out in three weeks. Cyclones merchandise is flying off shelves all over the region. Brooklyn fans are calling up local sports radio programs to curse the name of Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers owner who orchestrated the infamous move. The Borough of Churches seems...