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Lois Bean worries about the same thing. An eighth-grade teacher in the upscale Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, she says her problem students have one thing in common: detached parents. Bean's efforts to get their mothers and fathers to attend back-to-school night, help out with research papers or even return her phone calls are often in vain. Those same parents are usually no-shows even at the Little League games that her family frequents. "We end up giving the same kids, who live in beautiful homes, a ride home every night," she says. "These aren...
...stigma--who wants a new Three Mile Island in his suburb...
...pressure to go out on dohans. She had worked for two years on BA's long-haul routes to Africa and the Americas, but she had seldom been away from her family home - where she still lived with her mother and younger sister and brother - in the London suburb of Sevenoaks, Kent, for more than four days in a row. After arriving in Tokyo, she phoned and e-mailed family almost daily, telling them she was homesick...
Aisha didn't return. It was the kind of disappearance that is all too common in this part of West Africa, where war and chaos are as routine as the peace of an American suburb. Children disappear, sometimes kidnapped like Aisha by traders who sell them into slavery, sometimes split accidentally from their parents at refugee camps or nabbed by passing soldiers to join the fight. Thousands of children have been separated from their families by the civil war that started in Liberia in 1989, spread to Sierra Leone in 1991 and has now infected Guinea. Children with no parents...
...Attorney Zhou Litai would agree. Zhou represents some of the most visible victims of Shenzhen's march to prosperity. At his crumbling four-story home in the down-at-the-heel Shenzhen suburb of Longgang, 40 of his clients, all amputees, live six to a bunk-bedded room. They lost their arms or legs in machinery at local factories set up by Hong Kong and Taiwanese firms. None has an artificial limb and all received derisory compensation, generally a one-off payment of around $1,000. Official figures show there are 13,000 serious work injuries each year...