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...Obama now leads John McCain by six points nationwide, the new poll said, about twice the margin reported in May. Most of the internal findings were predictable: Obama leads among women, blacks, Catholics, and independents. McCain is tops among whites, males, white suburban women and evangelicals. That means the White House, even with the new margin, is up for grabs. The most intriguing piece of news in the poll, however, suggests how the end of the primaries and the start of the general election are already reshaping the race...
...bales," says Probst. "But they don't do that anymore." What they do is the same thing other kids do, which is to say they spend more and more time inside, in front of a screen--even more so since their homes are a lot likelier than those of suburban kids to lie next to a four-lane interstate or some other decidedly unsuitable place to play. "Kids need a support system for activity," says David Hartley, director of the Maine Rural Health Center. "And in rural areas, too often they don't have that...
...endured bands of slow-moving thunderstorms that have unleashed massive tornadoes and caused dams to fail. At least four people were killed as a tornado tore through a Boy Scout camp in the remote hills of western Iowa Wednesday. An entire Wisconsin lake has emptied. Carp are swimming through suburban Milwaukee streets. An Iowa farmer has drowned in his own field. And the havoc is expected to continue, with more bizarre weather and even an alert about a mini-tsunami on Lake Michigan in Chicago. What next? Twisters down Michigan Avenue? Don't scoff...
...Newark’s worst public housing projects, a massive, mud-colored, 300-unit building that was demolished in December 2007. Despite the fact that he is staking his political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen County. His pedigree is glaringly elite: after graduating from Stanford, where he also took a master’s degree, Booker attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship before attending Yale for law school. In 2002, Booker made his first run for mayor of Newark, losing narrowly to a veteran...
...audience at Harvard is made up of suburban rebels dressed in all black and baby-boomers whose love of the Internet is only paralleled by their propensity to don drag. Not surprisingly, members of the Harvard community make up only about a twentieth of the audience at Loews, according to the show’s director...