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...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...
...setting is an upscale exurban village on the Hudson River. Ian McCullough is a senior fellow at a rather grandly named think tank, the Institute for Independent Research in the Social Sciences. He specializes in population studies and also edits a prestigious journal on international politics. Glynnis, his wife of 26 years, has compiled two successful cookbooks and is working on a third, an ambitious survey to be called American Appetites; Regional American Cooking from Alaska to Hawaii. The McCulloughs have a circle of close friends very much like themselves: well educated, well- to-do, well regarded by their professional...
...precisely sure of the reasons for the exurban increases, but there are some theories: rural and suburban police have improved crime reporting methods; youths in affluent suburbs are finding crime increasingly attractive; the nation's highway system has enabled criminals to become fast commuters...
...mortgage rates now hover near 10%. Construction workers, from carpenters to lumberjacks, find that jobs are becoming scarcer every day. The situation is acute in what was one of the fastest-growing counties in the nation during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In New York's exurban Suffolk County, 40% of construction workers...