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...social variables. A few generations back, religion, race and custom superseded all other considerations. When Kathleen Hobson and Atul Gawande, both 27, married last year, however, they based their vision of a shared future on a different set of common values: an upper-middle-class upbringing in tight-knit families, a Stanford education and a love of intellectual pursuits...
...tightly knit Irish community, where word of mouth substitutes for Help Wanted ads, there is always plenty of work, and Colm's income has hovered around $30,000 a year. Yet he lacks the important little things that validate life in America. Though he has a legal driver's license, his Social Security number is invented and his apartment is rented in the name of an ex- girlfriend. "The thing of it is, I've been here since I was 15 years old, I've worked hard, and I've never committed a crime," he says. "This is my home...
...Smyrna is a "kick-ass" town: It was voted the 32nd best small town in the US. I have lots of documentation on this. Everyone knows everyone--it's really close-knit. For example, my dad plays in the Fire Company band and they throw big parties in barns...
Agassiz's enrollment, totaling 270 youths in grades K-8, was cited as a primary reason for its cozy environment. The school's peer mentor program and multi-aged classes enhacnes its close-knit atmosphere...
After I switched from news to sports my sophomore year, I learned pretty quickly that honesty and good wit may win you the respect of other journalists, but they bring you the ire of just about everyone else. And at a school with such a tightly knit (some would say incestuous) athletic program, that's a lot of enemies who know you by name and nothing else...