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...environmental psychologist at the City University of New York, cites a general "disinvestment in public space" as one reason children are playing less outdoors. Even public sandboxes are vanishing. Says Hart: "People have become paranoid about animal waste." What's more, as the average family size gets smaller and suburban houses are built farther apart, "kids have a harder time finding each other than they used to," Moore says...
...Hart says, "that in the presence of one another, kids formed a critical mass to keep each other safe. Gone are the days when children make any of their own plans." Their fearful, ambitious parents made plans for them, but these plans don't always mesh, unfortunately. A suburban Chicago mom who wishes to remain anonymous called up a school friend of her daughter's to arrange a play date. The kindergartner was booked solid. "It seems like kids today are always on the way to somewhere," complains the disillusioned...
...unfortunately this is the most surprising thing about the show. With virtually every other current sitcom set in a white suburban household, “Undergrads” should be able to capitalize on the essentially untapped comic potential its college setting provides. Its creator, a 22-year-old NYU drop-out, should be able to give the show the youthful wit and energy that won him the MTV Character Screen Test competition halfway through his freshman year of college. Yet despite its billing as “irreverent” and, even more inaccurately, “humorous...
...made his fortune by using the power of technology to disseminate his products. He decries "all the ugliness we see on cnn," but is happy to hawk his goods through the television shopping channel qvc. He laments the disintegration of the small-town community in favor of suburban culture, but has licensed his name to a new suburban development, the Village at Hidden Brook, in Vallejo, California, that is being constructed to conform to the vision presented in his works. He is also a savvy businessman. His title at MAGI is simply Artistic Director and Co-Founder, but his stake...
...what George W. Bush calls "windshield ranchers," weekend cowboys more comfortable behind a steering wheel than atop a saddle. In the Texas of old, this would earn you certain ridicule. No more. One big reason is Bush himself, who keeps track of 200 head of cattle from a Chevy Suburban on his 1,600-acre spread near Crawford in central Texas. Bush's very conspicuous retreats to his faux-cowboy haven (which has geothermal heating and other eco-friendly accoutrements) may draw snickers from some Eastern know-it-alls. But he has helped fuel a rush for Texas ranchland...