Word: suburbanitis
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...MAKE HOUSE CALLS. Jocelyn Graves, a single mom who lives in downtown Sacramento, Calif., felt that her son's school was run by suburban educators who didn't understand or care about her son. She began grumbling to friends and found that many were equally disaffected. At an informal school meeting, Graves acerbically suggested teachers could better understand students and parents by visiting their homes. Three years and 6,000 home visits later, the Sacramento schools' Home-Visit Project is credited with helping turn around the district's parents and its students. Reading scores on standardized exams have gone...
There's something about the Nintendo campus that just heaves with secrecy. Its whitewashed buildings with black-tinted windows, closely shrouded by trees, seem more like Langley, Va., than suburban Seattle. Even if you sneak in, you won't find Nintendo's powerful new video-game console, the GameCube, in any of the display cases. Nor will you hear the staff speak the names of the games that will be released for it. "We've said the right amount on GameCube, which is nothing," chuckles the sagelike executive vice president Peter Main. "We've got our friends across the road...
...line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both in the same place; a saga of innocence being continuously lost...
...Larry, you heard right. The Sox are on the block, and there’s no shortage of rich suburban bankers who want to pony up the $500 million it would take to buy them from the Yawkeys...
...doctorate in 1995 from Rutgers. Both found work through a technology-employment firm that places talented technicians with companies that need their expertise. For two years they worked as "distinguished members" of Lucent's staff, making six-figure salaries and settling into comfortable lives in suburban New Jersey. It is not clear when the two made contact with the third suspect, Yong-Qing Cheng, a vice president at the New Jersey-based IT company Village Networks. But according to investigators, the combination of Lin and Xu's insider knowledge of Lucent and Cheng's salesmanship led to the development...