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...name and no street lamps, like every other street here. Tonight it is raining-raining black oil, slicking roads, roofs, every breathable molecule of air-and I am standing outside in the pitch darkness on the no-name main street, waiting to catch a bus to Piedades, another suburb of San Jose: I’m going night swimming...
...miles south of Beirut, his keepers, who belonged to Lebanon's Amal militia, brought the prisoners some of the baggage from the plane's hold. "Luckily, my suitcase was among the bags delivered, and the camera was still inside," Hill said last week in his office in a Chicago suburb. "Not once during our whole captivity did they know I had a camera...
...able to compete, but a burgeoning number of entrepreneurs think they can. Americans are eating out more than ever, and more than ever they are eating fast food. Since Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in a Chicago suburb back in 1955 (burgers: 15¢), fast food has grown to a $45 billion business. The increase from ten years ago is nearly fourfold. From burgers to fried chicken to pizza, fast food has become the quintessentially American dining experience: a perfect expression of those bedrock values of efficiency, thriftiness and speed...
Yonkers (pop. 191,000), an industrial suburb just north of New York City, is a place divided. To the east of the Saw Mill River Parkway live most of the city's whites; to the west live most of its blacks and other minorities. In what may turn out to be a landmark civil rights decision, Federal Judge Leonard Sand ruled last week that the deliberate concentration of low-income housing projects on Yonkers' west side resulted in a racially segregated public school system that "has clearly worked to the disadvantage of minority students." It was the first time that...
...Prompted by anti-Muslim demonstrators marching toward Bridgeview from a neighboring suburb, local police secured the area around the school and the mosque next door, manning the barricades for three days. "That day changed my life," says Zarzour, an immigrant from Syria. "Up until that time, Arab-American Muslims were the new kids on the block, going through the same adjustment as the Jews, the Irish and the Hispanics before us. A little discrimination was part of the process of integration. Now people don't think there is any such thing as a good Muslim...