Word: suburbanity
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Partly because country life was thought to be healthier, the asylum has traditionally been located there. It need not be. Older urban hospitals, now being closed, could be turned into institutions to care for the homeless mentally ill. There is no need for warehousing. Smaller-scale urban or suburban clinics will do. The crucial feature of asylum is not isolation or size. It is control...
...specialist for the National Parent Teacher Association, called Bennett's proposal an "inappropriate and possibly unconstitutional transfer of public tax dollars to private and especially private religious schools." Others argued that $600 would not go far toward private day-school tuition or even the pupil cost in an upscale suburban school (typically...
Other big American cities have been plagued 'with similar incidents. One roving Chicago gang, the Simon City Royals, based in the city's white middle-class Avondale neighborhood, had been tied to as many as 150 robberies last spring in more than a score of suburban towns. Using six stolen four-wheel-drive vehicles, gang members pulled up to houses, emptied them of jewelry, stereos and VCRS, then sold the stolen items through a tavern owner. After 16 of the gang's members were arrested, Chicago Police Sergeant John Nalepa said, "It was the first time I'd seen anything...
...eyes of their peers, it is important for kids to be sexually active. No one wants to be a virgin," observes Amy Williams, director of San Francisco's Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project (TAPP). The social pressure even on the youngest adolescents can be daunting. Says Stephanie, 14, of suburban Chicago, now the mother of a four-month-old, "Everyone is, like, 'Did you lose your virginity...
Last week Norris, 74, decided it was finally time to step aside. At a board meeting at the firm's headquarters in suburban Minneapolis, he announced his retirement from the company he formed in 1957 and has since dominated. He was succeeded as chairman by Robert Price, 55, Control Data's president, who has worked closely with Norris in recent years...