Word: suburbanity
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...study found the West to be the most segregated area for Latinos, but Orfield contended that New York is now the epicenter for both Latino and black segregation. He also said that in general rural communities are more integrated than suburban and metropolitan areas...
Even superheroes have midlife crises. In The Incredibles, due in November from Pixar, over-the-hill Hercules MR. INCREDIBLE (Craig T. Nelson) struggles to adapt to life as a suburban family man and insurance-claims adjuster. The film, which also stars Holly Hunter as Elastigirl, Mr. Incredible's wife, and Samuel L. Jackson as his friend Frozone, follows a powers-packed family at a time when "superheroes are considered cumbersome," says writer-director Brad Bird, who helmed 1999's The Iron Giant. "There are legal problems. They're put into the equivalent of a witness-relocation program." And we thought...
...rush-hour crunch. As cleverly right-under-our-noses a location as the Pike’s median may seem, it is hardly ideal in practical terms—a magnetic express along the same route as the existing highway would be of little use without branches connecting to suburban communities, and those branches would take yet more land and money. Even worse, the Pike delays that would be necessary for the monorail’s construction would be devastating—just ask commuters on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, who suffered for years during the construction...
Fountains of Wayne's first two albums (Grammy nominations for Best New Artist are given out only when the Grammy people are good and ready) were full of great, Kinks-inspired guitar-pop songs about contemporary suburban characters like themselves. "When we first started writing songs," says Schlesinger, "we felt like we needed to write about grand, universal themes like 'I am the King of Pain.' I remember thinking, Jesus Christ, how do you write something like that, especially if you're from New Jersey?" So instead they wrote Red Dragon Tattoo, about an exuberant moron who gets inked...
...alarming trend has been confirmed by Partnership for Children, a local child-advocacy group that has just completed a survey of child-care centers, elementary schools and pediatricians throughout Tarrant County, which includes Forth Worth and suburban Arlington. The final report is due out in January, but a preliminary version obtained by TIME shows that 93% of the 39 schools that responded to the survey said kindergartners today have "more emotional and behavioral problems" than were seen five years ago. More than half the day-care centers said "incidents of rage and anger" had increased over the past three years...