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...weeks. And according to a survey prepared for USA Today, 46% of student leaders say drinking is their high school's biggest problem, followed by apathy. "Serious drinking is a fact of life," says Phuong Nguyen, senior-class president at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in a Washington suburb...
Fagan is from a suburb of Dallas, Tex. Her community was mixed, but "more white than anything," she says. She went to a private girls' school--which she calls "a sheltered atmosphere"--for eight years. She was one of two Blacks in a graduating class...
This year, Fagan lives with one other Black Texan, a Chinese-American from a Washington, D.C. suburb and a Canadian Jew. And she's made a "learning experience" out of that...
...beginning of December 1941, German troops were in Istra, a suburb only 15 miles west of Moscow. Ever since Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa at 4 a.m. on June 22, 1941, his forces had swept through Stalin's European empire. They took the half of Poland that had been partitioned to the Soviet Union in 1939, stripped off the Baltic states that Moscow had annexed just a year before, seized Belorussia, and were marching south into Ukraine. Stalin's generals were stunned. They had believed the idea of blitzkrieg was an unreliable bourgeois strategy. No one had expected such a lightning...
...Angeles suburb of Glendora, entrepreneur Keith Porchia cheerfully dons a hard hat to check on the progress of the 51-unit apartment complex he is developing. In Winter Springs, Fla., Sheelah Ryan, a retired real estate agent, meets with the board of the Ryan Foundation to map programs for what she calls "the new poor." Somewhere in southern Atlantic waters, Anthony Palermo, formerly of the U.S. Navy, cruises with his family aboard his own yacht, joyfully named Picked...