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...Suburban New Yorkers Sherwood and Hyaline Greenberg enjoyed spending winter months in Longboat Key, Fla., for several years. So when it came time for Sherwood to retire from his imported-knitwear business, he and his wife could logically have settled in Florida. But they wouldn't hear of it. Instead, they sold their house on Long Island and moved just 20 miles away to an apartment in Manhattan. There, instead of the warmth and tranquillity of the South, they enjoy the culture and vibrancy of the city--and, above all, the proximity of their two daughters and four grandchildren...
...professor whose personal intellectual revelation has both ruined and redeemed his life; and a math teacher who has ruthlessly and repeatedly reinvented himself. The action of the novel unfolds in two very different sites—the fame, fortune and appearance-obsessed world of New York City and the suburban town of Rockford, Ill., an erstwhile paragon of industrialization—against the backdrop of contemporary American culture...
Neil Franklin, 37, a former door-to-door salesman, knew nothing about the wireless world a decade ago, but he did foresee the changing dynamics of the workplace. In 1994 he founded Dataworkforce in his suburban London flat to supply skilled temps for the global cell-phone market. Today Dataworkforce has more than 300 telecom contractors employed in 54 countries by clients such as Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, AT&T, British Telecom and China Unicom. Assignments can last from two days to four years. "I always thought the industry would become dependent upon a virtual bank of knowledge, rather than...
...five-bedroom suburban home, TIME found inventory forms for arms checked in by fighters. They detailed the type of weapon (from Kalashnikov rifle to Soviet-era T-62 tank), its country of origin and serial number, and the organization to which it belonged, usually a Pakistani group, the Taliban or "specially for al-Qaeda." Other printed forms listed basic data about individual fighters, including name, nationality, health condition, training background and official role. One Palestinian fighter, listed as Abu Majid, 24, was noted to have extensive combat experience "against the Jews," that is, the Israelis, in south Lebanon...
...massive teakwood gates of his family's suburban Bangkok compound roll open so police commandos can search it for the third time, Chalerm Yubamrung is smoking a fat Cuban cigar and complaining about the assaults on his dignity. Chalerm, a former police captain and now a member of Defense Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's New Aspiration Party, has done miraculously well on a public servant's salary. He and his three sons live in a 2.5-hectare, 14-building estate complete with its own football field. Back in 1991, the last military government charged Chalerm and several politicians with being "unusually...