Word: suburbanism
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...bought condos in the hope of fast price appreciation saw the shakeout coming and dumped even more of them on the market. At the same time, demand was dampened by the maturing of baby boomers, many of whom now aspire to move from condos to split-level suburban homes with lawns. Many new condo projects, particularly luxury developments, have become virtual ghost towns. In March, Crocker National Bank repossessed a $28 million, 88-unit condo project in Glendale., Calif, because the builder had been able to sell only three apartments in two years...
...Sachs, a senior reporter from suburban Detroit, has been at TIME since 1984. She has a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia Journalism School...
Another episode, not shown to critics, in which a suburban mom goes on a drinking binge, would cause outrage if Factor were asking her to do it for $50,000. But Spurlock says the woman took the challenge as an object lesson to her daughter. "I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself," he says. After 90 gut-busting McMeals, of course, we have a pretty good idea how little that is. --By James Poniewozik
...past two years, Fahrenheit 9/11 had audiences proclaiming Michael Moore as savior or anti-Christ. Super Size Me, that Big Machiavellian experiment in fast-food bingeing, made a star of director and guinea pig Morgan Spurlock. Capturing the Friedmans posed a troubling mystery about a seemingly nice suburban family that viewers had to resolve for themselves. And Winged Migration turned every moviegoer into an awestruck ornithologist. The moral: films needn't serve as just pacifiers or pulse racers. That's what Hollywood does. Get people arguing, thinking. Stir them to anger or awe. That's docu-tainment...
...institution teaching 638 students in pre-K through 12th grades in Bridgeview, Ill. The suburb, 16 miles southwest of Chicago's downtown Loop, lies in the heart of one of the U.S.'s largest Arab communities, where an estimated 25,000 Islamic residents pursue an uneasy assimilation into secular, suburban life. The school's goal is to give its students such a solid grounding in their religion and education that they will be able to go forth and succeed in mainstream American life without compromising their values. "Proud to be Muslim, proud to be American," says Safaa Zarzour, vice chairman...