Word: suburbanitis
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...Hours after a bomb linked to the Basque terrorist movement ETA killed two people outside a suburban rail station near San Sebastian, French police arrested Xabier Garcia Gaztelu, alias Txapote, who is believed to be eta's top military commander. He has allegedly participated in at least 12 murders, including that of Popular Party councillor Miguel Angel Blanco and Socialist lawyer Fernando Mugica. Txapote was seized in the French town of Anglet, close to the Spanish border, and will face trial in France before extradition to Spain. The arrest is a major blow to eta, whose most senior leader...
...little after 8 p.m. on a Sunday night, just five weeks shy of his planned retirement from the spy game. Ten armed FBI agents shivered in the cold as they watched Hanssen walk up to a "dead drop" code-named Ellis, a spot under a bridge in a quiet suburban Virginia park where he hid a plastic garbage bag full of secret U.S. documents. As he emerged from the woods of Foxstone Park, the agents, guns drawn, surrounded fellow FBI spy catcher Bob Hanssen, clapped handcuffs on his wrist and began reading him his Miranda rights. Some FBI men plunged...
...proper, they began tearing down old row houses in one of the city's few remaining historic neighborhoods to make way for a giant 230,000 sq m park. Many of the dislocated families are being forced to move 90 minutes away from town into the glut of new suburban housing. Certainly, Shanghai needs green space, but couldn't a less historic district have been leveled...
...test's makers heatedly deny). High school students and their parents also believe that scores on the all important test can be raised by spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on courses that teach you tricks for outwitting the test (its makers deny that too). Real estate values in suburban communities vary with the local high school's average sat scores, even though the test was not designed to measure schools...
...schools. Thirty-four percent of the Class of 2003 comes from private schools, but according to the Department of Education, only 9 percent of American high-schoolers attend private secondary schools. Assuming that students from private schools have higher family incomes than those at public schools (even though many suburban public schools have very wealthy student bodies and many urban private schools--parochial schools in particular--have poorer students), this is much greater wealth inequality than that existing in our nation...