Word: suburbias
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...feel like you need to belong before you can set yourself apart,” says Wu. “The spectrum moved from ‘Inspirations,’ applicable to everyone, then ‘East meets West,’ Asian minorities in white suburbia. Then we moved into ‘Chinatown,’ and then we moved onto the most extreme, where Asians suddenly become the majority...
...already standard practice in Namibia and Singapore and in cities like London, which draw much of their water from rivers where treated sewage has been dumped upstream. Queasiness is a luxury no one can either afford or justify, since purification technology can handle stuff the coddled minds of suburbia cannot. "Even wastewater is at least 99% water," says Bruce Durham, Veolia's alternative-resources manager. "What matters isn't its history but its quality...
...additional curse, no compensation. There are no light scenes in which to draw breath and recover from the blows that Cusk delivers. Even the passages describing the town are clouded by a grey fog and rain that reminds readers of the wretchedness of home and suburbia. “Arlington Park” is a book without hope. Not only do Cusk’s characters suffer, but they make no efforts to change or improve their situations. Cusk offers harsh discouragement to every member of her audience: children, you are nasty little terrors who make your mothers?...
...keep them special. As a kid, I'd wake up excited whenever my grandmother was in town, knowing she'd prepare two perfectly poached eggs for me--dark yolk oozing across shiny soft whites, soaking into lightly toasted bread--something my mom never got right. This was Jewish suburbia in the '70s; a decent poached egg was as close as we ever got to a madeleine...
...coming weeks and months, look for articles on China's Me generation, on its daring group of activist lawyers, on preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and the challenges this showcase will pose to China's political system, on how suburbia is transforming the nation and how China is fast becoming a synonym for international chic. And we will continue to write and report on how America and China must interact in the 21st century. Henry Luce's great passions of the 20th century remain ours today...