Word: suburbanitis
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...impetus for change comes from small groups of homespun activists. In suburban Pittsburgh, Pa., Gigi Kelly, a nurse and mother, was inspired to begin a local campaign after a healthy 8-lb. baby boy was left in a trash bag behind her family's church. Kelly found an old laundry basket, lined it with a warm blanket and put it on her front porch. Then she called reporters with a plea for young mothers to bring their babies to her. I'll take it from there, she promised. Nobody has taken up her offer yet, but still she waits...
...asked two architects, Wes Jones and Bernard Tschumi, to build the houses of tomorrow, one suburban, the other urban. In "What Will Our Skyline Look Like?" Richard Lacayo argues that the steel-and-glass Modernist box is about to be sliced, diced and shredded. Five designers--Giorgio Armani, John Bartlett, Randolph Duke, Tommy Hilfiger and Vera Wang--created a closetful of clothes, with Wang's wedding dress, I guess, a good indication that at least she thinks the institution of marriage will survive...
...together but to take joint responsibility for a child or an elderly adult. Some of these arrangements will look very much like today's marriages, with a heterosexual couple undertaking the care of their biological children. Others will look like nothing we've seen before, at least not in suburban America, especially since there's no natural limit on the number of contracting caretakers. A group of people--male, female, gay, straight--will unite in their responsibility for the children they bear or acquire through the local Artificial Reproduction Center. Heather may routinely have two mommies, or at least...
...white kid sells a bag of cocaine at his suburban high school. A Latino kid does the same in his inner-city neighborhood. Both get caught. Both are first-time offenders. The white kid walks into juvenile court with his parents, his priest, a good lawyer--and medical coverage. The Latino kid walks into court with his mom, no legal resources and no insurance. The judge lets the white kid go with his family; he's placed in a private treatment program. The minority kid has no such option. He's detained...
...Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College, each candidate will have to concentrate on mobilizing a solid, if unorthodox, combination of voters. "You've got this interesting mixing up of voting bases in this race," says Klinkner. "She has some appeal with independent or nominally Republican suburban women," while he may be able to corner some law-and-order Democrats. If she wants to emerge victorious, says Muzzio, Clinton will have to win back the women who have become disengaged with her candidacy, by talking about issues particularly appealing to women, such as education and health care, in substantive...