Word: suburbanized
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...health care, particularly in the U.S. In Chicago and New York City, the number of hospitalizations for acute attacks in chil dren under age four has surged. "A black child in the inner city has a 13- to 16-fold better chance of dying from asthma than his white suburban counterpart," says Dr. James Wedner, an allergist at Washington University in St. Louis. Poor or uninsured asthmatics often get medical attention only on a crash basis at the hospital emergency room. They receive no treatment for the underlying condition, so their lungs deteriorate...
...before every other ninth- grader wore sideburns and shades, Gaines' magazine was the only place for children to have an uncensored glimpse behind the perky facade of '50s bourgeois life. It was where they could get clued in to the fatuousness of civics-book sanctimony, to the permutations of suburban phoniness, to grown-up dissembling and insincerely sincere hucksterism of all kinds. Mad infected children with a healthy streak of antiestablishment skepticism, a Dada- dissectionist attitude toward all media. Where else could you see Donald Duck baffled by his three fingers and white gloves...
...Southern California gang expert Malcolm W. Klein, in 1961 there were 23 cities with known street gangs nationwide. Today there are 187. Practically every state has some kind of gang problem. Nor is it limited to inner-city areas of major urban centers. Gangs can be found in suburban cities with populations as small...
...Quad Howl" (the suburban version of the River Houses' pre-exam primal scream) can sometimes get out of hand (bandies overtook the roof of Cabot House this year), but I figured this tank wasn't from the National Guard. No, its real purpose was more pressing. The tank was circling unceasingly and shooting grass seed from a huge cannon about 40 feet...
Walsh--who owns condos throughout the suburban Boston area--flatly denies all the charges...