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...lack of professional skills accounts for the Ethiopians' comparatively lower income levels, but careful government planning has prevented the creation of ghettos. Instead, small clusters of Ethiopians live in dozens of towns, easing the process of integration. Even so, the leap from subsistence farming to suburbia can be wrenching, especially for the elderly. "The old ones pay the price," says Gad Ben-Ari, spokesman for the quasi-official Jewish Agency. "We can support them but I doubt they'll become Israelis." Eager to conform, the young reject traditional customs and cuisine while the village religious leaders, known as kessim, become...
Then why the marketing push now? For all their advantages, parochial schools badly need funds. They have lost half their students and 2,500 of their schools during the past 25 years as part of the general movement to suburbia. Inner-city schools are still vulnerable as working-class Catholics continue to migrate to the suburbs. Moreover, the cadre of women in religious orders who traditionally taught in Catholic schools continues to decline, and lay teachers, often with families, demand higher salaries...
...Until recently, however, nearly all the dissidents have sneered and carped from on high, dismissing not just the thoughtless, ugly way suburbs have developed, but also the very hopes and dreams of those who would live there. Today, for the first time, the most articulate, ! convincing critics of American suburbia are sympathetic to suburbanites and are proposing a practical cure...
...Nance Canyon, a 3,050-acre, 5,250-unit New Age town near Chico, Calif. Half a dozen such towns are already under construction. Seaside, their widely publicized prototype town in northern Florida, is more than half built. At Kentlands, a new town on the edge of Maryland suburbia outside Washington, the first families have just moved in, and vacant lots are selling despite the housing slump. In addition, the two, among the Prince of Wales' favorite architects, have helped design a town Charles plans to build in Dorset...
...LINES. Big City boulevardiers have been flashing their price tags for some time. Now the updated Minnie Pearl look has hit suburbia -- just ask these kids from Florida...