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...Their approaches to last Saturday night's 100-meter races were similar only in this insularity. Jones went inland, low-keying everything. She holed up with her handlers and family in a just-built apartment complex in the working-class suburb of Bankstown. Two-by-fours still littered the yard; a Dumpster out front hadn't yet been carted away. Hunter, a taciturn 320-pounder who likes the kitchen a lot, did most of the cooking. (He had the time, as knee surgery had forced him to withdraw from the shot-put competition.) After breakfast, Jones reported to a nearby...
...Down to Earth Most Sydneysiders have little reason to visit the dull, middle-class suburb of Parramatta. Sure, there's a huge shopping mall. And a bowling alley. And some cheap Asian restaurants. But it ain't bright lights, big city...
...these things?" Another counselor says a 47-year-old man he is treating has been a recluse for 28 years. "You can't pinpoint the reason, but you can pinpoint the context: it's Japan," says Sadatsugu Kudo, who runs a recovery center for hikikomori in Fussa, a Tokyo suburb. "In Japan you have to be like other people, and if you aren't, you have a sense of loss, of shame. So you disappear...
That's the story Marianne Boswell, a single mother in a suburb of Boston, tells her five-year-old to help him understand why he doesn't have a daddy. Like many single moms who become parents without a husband or partner, Marianne doesn't have an easy life raising a son on her own. But perhaps the biggest challenge is trying to answer Sam's inevitable questions. "He knows that we're a family with a mommy and a nana," says Marianne, 47, an executive recruiter. "But I still cringe on Father...
When Sushmita Sen, the first Indian to be chosen Miss Universe, made her triumphant return to the subcontinent after the 1994 pageant, there were victory processions, gala parties and countless interviews. For fans like Yukta Mookhey, a teenager growing up in a middle-class suburb of Bombay, Sushmita was living a dream: she had been wrenched from an ordinary life and forged by the blast furnace of glamour and fame into a celebrity. Yukta, then 15, told her family that she too would one day wear a glittering crown. Her parents smiled at her adolescent fantasies, talked about college...