Word: suburbanitis
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...Japanese team will include Matsuzaka and seven other big leaguers in these first Olympics where baseball professionals are allowed. At 19, the fastballer is now the top draw of the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. When he pitches, the 35,000-seat stadium in suburban Tokorozawa tends to fill up. Other nights, the stands are often half-empty. Matsuzaka's Lions are in a heated pennant race in a season that won't end until after the Sydney Games. Releasing him to the Olympic squad would be like the St. Louis Cardinals in the U.S. major leagues going...
...still can't catch a break with suburban women. It isn't only her hunger for the job; she just doesn't come across as genuine. It is hard for people to tell what's true when you can't talk about the things most important to you and have to put a smiley face on one of the toughest political marriages in history. When she says she felt like a newlywed unpacking boxes in Chappaqua, it rings hollow. Does she really relish the prospect of rattling around in the huge empty house on her own? When she says...
...Washington, money talks. Suburban Fairfax County (which bills itself as "E-county") recently became the richest county in America, with a median household income of $90,937. An estimated 2,000 high-tech firms are on hand there, helping attract 20,000 new residents each year. A decade ago, the main Fairfax shopping center, Tysons Corner, was just a big mall. Today Tysons is the 14th largest business district in the U.S. It consists of two strip malls and two mega-malls near one another, with 80,000 people working in the vicinity and dozens of high-end outfitters--like...
...boom confined to the dotcom universe. In nearby Montgomery County, Md., just north of the District of Columbia, a new set of novel names and acronyms studs the suburban landscape. Biotechnology start-ups such as Genetic Therapy, Human Genome Sciences and GeneLogic and established health firms such as EntreMed and MedImmune fan out around the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Two hundred of the 300 biotechnology firms in Maryland are located in Montgomery County, whose median household income is $77,774 (ninth nationally). Montgomery County ranks sixth in the nation as having households with incomes...
...When Almodovar came here from L.A., she entered a fight over the town's soul. On one side are residents of the flats, the suburban realm of McDonald's and Staples. Susan Kaluza, 41, lives there with her husband, three children, and bunnies that run freely on her immaculate green lawn. "I didn't want Butte to be identified with the sex workers of the U.S.," says Kaluza, spokeswoman for the Concerned Citizens. "What if our children see the Dumas and say, 'O.K., this seems like a good career...