Word: suburbanity
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TheFacebook’s first summer house was a sublet in suburban Palo Alto, a fifteen-minute drive from world famous venture capital firms like Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, and walking distance from the Stanford campus, breeding ground of tech legends like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
...LAST TUESDAY, RETIRED General Colin Powell was dutifully signing books at a Wal-Mart in suburban Fort Worth when he noticed that the line of eager buyers appeared distracted. He was nonplussed, like a sergeant whose troops had fallen out without an order to do so. For a long moment in that cavernous mall in Texas, Powell seemed to be the only person in America who was unaware of what was happening in a courtroom in Los Angeles...
...cars offer "mobility insurance" for workers who avoid mass transit because they just might need a car for a midday errand. The message: If you must own a car, leave it in your garage at home. Washington Metro officials have placed 107 Flexcars and Zipcars at 66 city and suburban stations. And downtown Seattle has 35 Flexcars so that members can scoot across town for lunch or a parent-teacher meeting. "Car sharing is not a silver bullet," says Ref Lindmark, a transportation planner for King County, Wash. "But it gives people another reason to ride...
...resulting in 1.4 million fewer miles driven and 650 fewer tons of automobile emissions. "I do it to save on gasoline and reduce my stress load," says Dan Kulpinski, a senior programming manager at America Online, who has arranged 100 trips, mostly for the 55-min. commute from his suburban Maryland home to his office in Sterling...
Bright, baffled Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to save the world, which, a 6-ft. rabbit informs him, will end in 28 days. Writer-director Richard Kelly populates his suburban Middlesex with nearly as many strange creatures and daunting tasks as Tolkien did his Middle-earth. With an extra 20 minutes and a probing chat track with Kelly and fellow director Kevin Smith, this beautiful, elusive tale of tangent universes and distant technologies is even more beguiling--and almost makes linear sense. Not that it has to. As Donnie's friend Gretchen tells him, "You're weird." When he says, "Sorry...