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...appeal it has for another crucial segment of the record-buying public: white middle-class teenage males. "T.B.W.A.s, that's who's buying N.W.A.'s album," says Joel Abramson, manager of a Tower Records branch in Woodland Hills, Calif. "Teenage boys with attitude." Woodland Hills is an affluent suburb of Los Angeles, 75 miles northwest of Compton, the black community where N.W.A. still hangs out. "These boys are looking for something to relate to, to rebel with," says Abramson. "They're rebels without a clue...
...issue to link the city to the state water system. The choice is difficult because while state-supplied water would help relieve severe drought conditions, it might also encourage a burst of unwanted new development that many residents fear could turn the exclusive coastal enclave into a Los Angeles suburb...
...Nobody in his right mind stands up and says, 'I'm the pro-growth candidate,' even when he is," notes San Diego campaign consultant Thomas Shepard. Voters themselves are of two minds about development. "We're schizophrenic about growth," admits Peggy Rubach, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb whose population has nearly doubled, to 290,000, in the past 10 years. "We want the jobs, but we don't want the problems that come with them...
...after South Africa, and perhaps a brief trip to law school, Minter expects to return to Cleveland. Her parents, who reside in the up-scale Shaker Heights suburb, are prominent civic figures in Cleveland (her mother volunteers for Planned Parenthood and serves on several college boards; her father directs the Cleveland Foundation), and she would like nothing more than to take up where they have left...
Even when Louie stopped putting Chinese names in his stories, his prose captured the alienation the author felt growing up as the son of a Chinese- laundry owner in a Long Island, N.Y., suburb. Pangs of Love, whose darkly humorous tales were written over the past seven years, recounts the adventures of a Chinese-American waiter working in a Japanese sushi bar, an Americanized son who can communicate with his Cantonese-speaking mother only in a pidgin version of her language, and the Chinese invention of baseball. Says Louie: "Asian Americans are still marginalized. I feel I have to write...