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...Despite his mass media ubiquity over the past several days, Walker remains a mystery. Here's what we know: He comes from a well-to-do home in suburban San Francisco. We've learned that an adolescent fascination with Islam led to his conversion and subsequent embrace of the Bay Area Muslim community. This interest, in other words, was not a passing fancy. After his high school graduation, Walker's passion for his adopted religion spurred trips to Yemen and later to Pakistan, where he was last heard from in May of this year...
...corner, are a couple of 17-year-olds who met on a weeklong pursuit of their favorite boy band, Glay clones called Due le Quartz. Parked nearby are their miniature suitcases, one a faux Burberry, the other girlishly pink with a strawberry pattern. Michiko has taken off from her suburban Tokyo home before, but this is a first for Yuko, who rode the rails in from northern Niigata prefecture. "My parents said no, so I just packed a bag and left," she says. (Like most of the two dozen runaways TIME spoke to, the girls requested their last names...
...park. Newly remodeled houses with perfectly manicured shrubs shaped like bonsai are just around the corner. These aren't kids driven to the streets by abusive homes or grinding poverty. What Kayoko and her friends are rebelling against is the simple boredom, the predictability represented by those neat, little suburban houses. These girls know that if they play by the rules, pass all the right exams, marry the right guy, then all that awaits them is one of those tiny, three-bedroom homes with the little genkan and the slippers neatly lined up on the veneered floor. And what kind...
...Hutomo Mandala Putra, more familiarly known as Tommy Suharto, to snore through the storming of a rented luxury house by 25 armed police officers. Cynics, on the other hand, might argue that Indonesia's most famous fugitive was taking a mid-afternoon nap in the two-story home in suburban south Jakarta, confident that he faced little chance of serving anything but a nominal jail sentence. Whatever the source of his serenity, the youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto was discovered Nov. 28 seemingly asleep, lounging in a T shirt and shorts...
Since Sept. 11, consumerism has been cast as the new patriotism. Former President Bill Clinton has urged his countrymen to "get out and shop," and Congressmen take news crews on expeditions to suburban malls, to lead by example. A Georgia group called Moms of America even declared Sept. 30 "Shop for America...