Word: suburbanity
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...Based in suburban Philadelphia, the site launched last January with the more euphonic name Half.com (Derived from the rule, since abandoned, that an item could cost no more than half its list price.) The drill is simple. Half www.half.com lets sellers list used books, CDs, videos and computer games for nothing. If they're bought, Half takes 15% of the price. To list an item, a seller just types in its ISBN or UPC. With a book's ISBN, Half can create a listing with the title, author, a picture of the book jacket and blurbs. UPCs enable a similar...
...killer already in the room that Friday night? A woman in leopard-spotted pants sat in a booth, talking intently amid the laughter and conversation inside MVP's Interactive Video Cafe, a high-tone supper club in the suburban outskirts of Atlanta. By the front door, a long line of patrons lingered, waiting for tables to open. Against a backdrop of deep blue walls and soft neons, guys in designer shirts and leather jackets leaned against the polished-oak bar, curling glasses of cold beer. Three men in dark coats and blue jeans had rushed to take a table close...
...night to end. He had come here to celebrate his wife's 46th birthday--and he had stayed on even after she left for home feeling tired. There was much more to celebrate: in three days, he would be sworn in as the new sheriff of DeKalb County, in suburban Atlanta. The night was as much in his honor as hers; relatives and close campaign supporters had feted him in the lounge's VIP room earlier. Soon he hoped to make good on his promise to get rid of corruption at the local jail and maybe someday...
...clashing patterns, colors and whatever else he could find. Elle noted Lacroix was "both sublime and ridiculous." Of course he was. Finally, John Galliano's collection (far right) for Christian Dior was inspired by Wonder Woman. Models re-enacted the recent history of female liberation, beginning as Eisenhower-era suburban consumers accessorized with Brillo pads, teacups and plastic babies, and ending as heavy-metal superhero chicks in ripped clothes and boots. Fashion history really is the best history...
...lost. The World Economic Forum itself maintains an excellent site chock-full of the day's proceedings and a wide range of perspectives on the most contentious issues. Choice quote from Day 1: The observation by Tanzania's president that if everyone on Earth lived like suburban Americans, the planet's resources would have already been exhausted...