Word: suburbanized
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...walk from the Kenmore T station to Fenway on game day offers an experience unfamiliar to many sports fans today. Too many modern ballparks sit dismembered from the communities which support them, connected to their cities by thin ribbons of asphalt. Missing from these suburban landscapes is the mix of eclectic shops, restaurants, scalpers and bums that makes the walk to Fenway worth taking...
...doctor thought he was one for the record books. His middle-aged parents welcomed him as an unexpected 8-lb. 15-oz. bundle of joy. Delivered by C-section in a suburban Los Angeles hospital, Baby Billy, as he was nicknamed by the local paper, is a medical miracle--the product of an embryo frozen for 7 1/2 years. For a few days last week, Billy, whose parents prefer anonymity, was hailed as the oldest human embryo ever brought to term. Then the bubble burst...
...Charles In Charge" and "Who's The Boss?": A Brooklynite (Charles, Tony) is responsible for a middle-class suburban household. The youngest male child (Adam, Danny) is precocious, while the older daughter (Jamie, Sam) is popular and pretty. And let's not forget the eccentric senior citizen (Mr. Powell, Mona...
...experience of America for millions of students. It is reasonable to assume that school life will be much more difficult for future students if Clinton's proposals go through. Students would have much more homework, a cottage industry of test prep courses and books would spring up along every suburban highway, students would have fewer free hours and far more responsibilities. For some number of students, the frustration of repeating grades until "they got it right" could be crushing...
...plows through the press mob or watches as the lawn of her suburban bungalow is chewed up by a stakeout, the anguish visible on her face comes from her knowledge of Bill Clinton, the man up close, not the President we write about from afar. No doubt she's been a victim of his carelessness, as so many have, but she has also been the recipient of a hundred kindnesses. When her brother and sister died suddenly and young in the space of six months, Clinton dropped everything to go to both funerals...