Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kelsos apparently lost it. The day after Christmas, they left their home in the Philadelphia suburb of Exton, Pa., and took Steven in his wheelchair, with his toys, diapers and medical supplies, to the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in nearby Wilmington, Del. They demanded that Steven, a frequent patient there for years, be admitted, and then, while the receptionist went to get a nurse, the two drove off, leaving their son behind with a note saying they could no longer care...
...company" was headquartered in a modest two-bedroom home that Jeff and MacKenzie rented in Bellevue, a Seattle suburb. They converted the garage into a work space and brought in three Sun workstations. Extension cords snaked from every available outlet in the house to the garage, and a black hole gaped through the ceiling--this was where a potbellied stove had been ripped out to make more room. To save money, Bezos went to Home Depot and bought three wooden doors. Using angle brackets and 2-by-4s, he hammered together three desks, at a cost of $60 each. (That...
...BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON FINALE (WB) Like the Littleton shootings--which prompted its postponement, one of TV's several craven post-Columbine p.r. gestures--Buffy's wry, touching season ender exposed the demons in a prosperous suburb. Werewolf Oz's words after the climactic battle scene--"We survived...high school"--were a resonant caption to the year of the troubled teen...
...Fifteen years from now, I'd be 36 and married, please God. I'd be a practicing therapist living in the suburb of a big city or in a good-sized city not as big as New York. Anyway, near an urban area. I'd have kids; I'd be done with kids. Three or four. The person I marry has to make me laugh. I hold a lot of stock in funny people. He'd have to be, at his core and good at showing it, a very kind and gentle person. Also because I fancy myself a kind...
...garbage recycling [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]: I suggest you take a look at the percentage of material that many European countries are managing to recycle. Dilbeek, a commune in the western suburb of Brussels, managed to cut its garbage 70%. In the area where I live, we aim to reduce our garbage to 395 lbs. per person per year; that is 25% of what the average American citizen produces. There is no doubt that goal will be reached pretty soon. EMMANUEL DE BROUX Leignon, Belgium...