Word: suburbanity
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...Here was a forty-ish, high-end suburban finance type - 6'2", with a lacrosse player's build, handsome, funny, gregarious and kind. He loved (and still does, so keep reading) sailing but also, unlike many of his ilk, loved but one wife and one set of great kids. He had smoked, and back pain brought him to the doctor. The chest x-ray showed the oh-my-God shadow, the scans showed it everywhere. The next move is usually hospice - this one is just about impossible to stop, especially when this advanced...
Ever since veteran Republican representative Henry Hyde announced last year that he would not be seeking another term in Congress, Democrats have viewed his suburban Chicago district as one of the key battlegrounds in their effort to take back the House in 2006. Almost immediately party heavyweights like Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi started lending their support and helping raise loads of cash for one of the nation's most closely watched races. And with the Iraq War increasingly seen as a winning issue for the Dems, they...
...Other people have tried to develop their own sound and have tried to develop their own record label once they had a hit-record. Only the Beasties pioneered white-boys’ involvement in mainstream hip-hop. The current marketplace of rap albums carried almost entirely by the white-suburban market was introduced with the push of “License to Ill”—which they almost called Don't Be a Faggot”—to the top of the charts...
...increase that because everybody was going to live in their ranch in Montana and telecommute and all this kind of stuff, and exactly the opposite has happened. And it's a global phenomenon. [Cities] are going to be increasingly central, maybe more important than they ever were. And the suburban trend of everyone kind of moving out there and sitting around watching television hasn't happened nearly as much as we thought it was going...
TIME: The suburban mom with her eBay business on the side...