Word: suburbanism
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...optimism, enterprise and earnestness - rather like the far-fetched proposal of 40 years ago to create a TV show that would prove that educational television need not be an oxymoron. Unlike Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans in their idyllic Treasure House, or the leafy land of the suburban sitcom, Sesame's characters were colorful, their milieu was urban; there was noise and grime and grouches, and they hung out on the stoop, not the porch. Parents who were not white, not rich, not able to afford a fancy preschool knew this show was designed for them. Maybe it would...
...that sounds like a tremendous amount of faith in the private sector, it is. But the draw of Tysons - its plum location between Washington and Dulles, the major highways cutting through it - has made it endlessly marketable to businesses despite the suburban gridlock. Unlike abandoned subdivisions and flailing inner cities, Tysons thrives (hence the traffic). The Hilton Corp. plans to move its headquarters here from Beverly Hills, Calif. Volkswagen and Gannett already call Tysons home. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...into Canada, visiting cities where old friends might cue them to settle down. Some friends: shrills and quacks. Some country: this is an American road movie that hates most Americans. No surprise when you consider than, in American Beauty and Revolutionary Road, Mendes fashioned sweeping diatribes against the suburban middle-class, as if commuting to work and living near people you haven't known since college were crimes against humanity...
...over the last few weeks, a disturbing side to Indian student life down-under has come to light, sparking allegations of widespread racism in Australian society, and a failure by law enforcement authorities to act. The first incident occurred in the early hours of May 24 at a suburban party in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city in the country's south. Indian student Sravan Kumar Theerthala, a guest at the birthday party, was confronted by party-crashers, one of whom stabbed him in the head with a screw driver allegedly without provocation. (See pictures of Australia's apology...
...only partially occupied now, is GM's riverfront headquarters in downtown Detroit, a city that's now world famous for its industrial ruins. The Obama Administration has decreed the headquarters will stay downtown - at least for now - rather than move to vacant space at the GM Technical Center in suburban Warren. (Watch an interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally...