Word: suburbanized
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From opposite ends of the U.S., they carried on the computer industry's fiercest rivalry. Based in suburban New York, International Business Machines has long looked down on Apple Computer, dismissing it as a ragtag bunch of rabble-rousers. Miles away, in both distance and culture, Silicon Valley-based Apple (1990 revenues: $5.6 billion) attacked IBM ($69 billion) as an impersonal bureaucracy, mocking the company in TV ads as Big Brother and depicting its customers as lemmings. The warring companies forced computer users to choose sides, sometimes dividing family members against one another. Those wanting easy-to-use, almost organic...
When the Buck Center for Research in Aging proposed to conduct research on rats and other rodents at the $30 million facility it plans to build in suburban Marin County, some residents sounded the alarm. Animal-rights activists warned that studying the beasts would lead to unnecessary cruelty and that the laboratory could be a source of dangerous medical wastes. But another ominous potential threat, opponents argued, was that living near the center might make people feel bad about themselves...
...Tower stores nationwide, Efil4zaggin was the No. 2 seller for the week ending June 10; at Central South Music Sales, a Nashville-based distributorship, it was No. 1 for roughly the same period. Tom Myers of the Camelot Music shop in Springfield, Mo. -- whose patrons tend to be suburban kids rather than ghetto gang members -- says the similarly fast sales in his store "are very uncanny for a rap title...
White-tailed deer are suburban creatures, and a surge in the deer population as forests have regrown in the Northeast offers one reason that Lyme disease has hit hard in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and lower New England. Wisconsin and Minnesota have had smaller outbreaks, and so, though the ticks are a different species, has Northern California...
...Here they come, whizzing along city streets and suburban roadways by the thousands. Then, watch out, there they go, down on the pavement, writhing in pain. This year about 1 million people -- twice as many as last year -- are dashing around on "in-line" blades, the ice skates on wheels, and casualties are mounting. Health officials, roller buffs and the $150 million industry are growing concerned at the rising number of fractures, sprains and contusions as throngs of wobbly tyros fasten on the high-speed, tricky devices...