Word: exurban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They mulched their first garden with bales of straw they found in the barn, but the straw was loaded with seed, "so we had shoulder-high weeds in no time," says Rice. Their attempt at a two-acre wildflower meadow--the current planting of choice for exurban sophisticates--was also overrun by native grasses. A Japanese beetle infestation led them to buy traps that attract the insects with a sexual scent. Such traps work well in suburban backyards, but on a farm they work too well. "We filled garbage bags with the bastards," says Rice. Finally, they asked a neighboring...
...national luxury is elbow room, the blessing of wealth and space that allows congregations to split off and build huge, sprawling new churches along the highway, unaffiliated with any denomination, equipped like a high school, catering to a niche in the soul. It accounts for the blinding growth of exurban enclaves, filled with people fleeing not just the big cities but also the small ones--setting off from Dayton, Ohio, to settle in Hillsboro, even if it means an hour's drive to work...
...TRUTH UNIVERSALLY AKNOWLedged that politicians can with impunity call for better performances from U.S. schoolchildren. Those who are being hectored to pull up their socks and hit those books are too young to vote. So the 41 Governors who assembled last week in picturesque, exurban Palisades, New York, for the two-day National Education Summit had no reason to fear a backlash from their constituents--i.e., registered parents back home...
...typical session, last Wednesday night in exurban Bayville, New Jersey, attracted 93 voters despite rain and fog. Norris Clark, the full-time state director, told the group, ``We're talking about a major new party--national-- right up there with the Republicans and Democrats.'' Though the G.O.P.'s Contract with America picks up several of U.W.S.A.'s causes, he pointed out, it omits others. When he asked for opinions from the floor, virtually every voice condemned the major parties as hopelessly out of touch. Agnes James, 58, a real estate agent with five children, promised, ``We will provide a focus...
...Helmer's two-car garage isn't much to look at, but the modest structure set amid the cornfields and ranch homes of exurban Freeland, Michigan, harbors a revolution. Inside the garage and spilling over into what was Helmer's living room is the Northlane Math and Science Academy, a new kind of public school. In these unconventional quarters, Helmer, a veteran teacher and school administrator, and two other teachers are attempting to guide 39 students, ages 6 to 12, toward a better understanding of their world via a very active brand of learning...