Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rough time on the rugged, muddy 9-mile trek up to the base camp in the Machalilla National Park of coastal Ecuador. It was easier for Lee, a biophysicist who at 67 still bikes 30 miles round trip every day between their home in a Philadelphia suburb and his office at the University of Pennsylvania. For their nine days, not including airfare, they paid a little less than $1,600, which is partly tax deductible. "Practicing retirement" is how the couple describes this adventure. But Helen admits to another motive. "I had just turned 60," she says...
...American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means choosing between American Beauty-in which a quiet suburb of yuppies cracks under the vacuousness of their up-and-coming lifestyle-and Fight Club, where nameless corporate yupster Ed Norton finds the only way to reclaim his micromanaged and overworked sense of self is to beat the living daylights out of other...
...American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means choosing between American Beauty-in which a quiet suburb of yuppies cracks under the vacuousness of their up-and-coming lifestyle-and Fight Club, where nameless corporate yupster Ed Norton finds the only way to reclaim his micromanaged and overworked sense of self is to beat the living daylights out of other...
...massing his troops at the border, CNN reports that the man with mixed feelings about WWII has scheduled a press conference for October 25 to announce (finally!) that he?s joining the Reform party and gunning for its presidential nomination. That the announcement will be made in the D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Va., pretty much sums up his appeal ?- he?s a political outsider who?s not too far outside and a political commentator who?s smart enough to sound halfway credible and wacky enough to appeal to the margins. Those who are waving Buchanan ashore see a rabble...
...imposition of unsolicited self-exposure would be unthinkable to Franklin Hata, a retired medical-supply provider in Bedley Run, an affluent suburb north of New York City. Customers and other downtown merchants call him Doc, in deference to his business. The honorary title is also a well-meaning way of saying, "You may be Japanese, but you have been in town long enough...