Word: suburbanitis
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...Asian Americans are held up as an example to other groups, both immigrant- and native-born,” she said. Louie interviewed 68 second-generation Chinese Americans attending Hunter College and Columbia University and compared the experiences of students from suburban, middle-class America to those who grew up in ethnic enclaves like Chinatown or Flushing, New York...
...Suburban families can afford to pay for good educational opportunities, while parents in enclaves have to depend on ethnic networks, she said...
...deepest impulses? "The skyscraper seems to have even more power now as a symbol of modernization," says Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the school of architecture at Yale University. And from the point of view of environmentalists and regional planners, tall buildings are the best alternative to suburban sprawl and the best means of getting more people and businesses into a smaller footprint on the ground, putting less pressure on whatever stretches of nature remain. "I think the skyscraper is back," says Stern. "But is it back in the same...
...prepared a series of slides, each with a great big goal in tall letters: BROADEN, PERSUADE, GROW. These were designed to show how Bush could assemble a winning majority by inspiring his party's most ardent supporters while also drawing in more typically Democratic voters, like Hispanics, Catholics and suburban moderates, among others...
Joanne Gonzalez, a suburban Dallas stay-at-home mother and Martha Stewart-- like domestic perfectionist who worries about the darkness or lightness of the toast she serves her two young daughters, starts her days at 5:30 a.m. and ends them ... well, when the stimulants wear off. Immediately after waking, she starts the first of several loads of laundry, sees her husband off to work, fixes breakfast for her kids (she calls them "very high maintenance, very demanding") and then herds them into her Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes...