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...better or worse, the suburbs are what America came up with when presented with the chance to manufacture its ideal geography. Come 2025, people will still live in houses within eyeball distance of their neighbors, but the cyberrevolution and the environmental movement promise to alter the landscape. While computers promote a dramatic trend toward decentralization, allowing people to spread out and live or work anywhere, the green consciousness will urge a contrasting densification, to conserve open space. The reconciliation of these opposing trends will define the suburb of the future. As the vastness of cyberspace increasingly satisfies the craving...
...more moderate-to-liberal candidate vs. a conservative candidate in the state of South Carolina." Bush wants to convince Carolina Republicans that he is the only conservative in the race--that McCain is a closet Clinton who won in New Hampshire because the state has become a hilly suburb of Boston, Taxachusetts. That's a tough sell, since McCain has always been a staunch conservative--pro-life, pro-gun, antitax, antiregulation. But Bush argues that McCain's advocacy of campaign-finance reform and his opposition to whopping tax cuts mean he has abandoned his ideals. The argument is designed...
...also in evidence throughout his haunting score for the film version of Jane Hamilton's novel A Map of the World (Warner Bros.). Its spacious, Coplandesque lyricism is clearly the work of a composer who grew up on the prairie's edge (he comes from Lee's Summit, a suburb of Kansas City). "The geography of Missouri has had an incredibly strong aesthetic impact on me," he says. "You see everything from a distance. You look out and there's a tree, and 25 miles beyond it there's a pond. And whenever I'm playing or writing...
During the 20th century, the Harvard campus has grown at a rate of about one million square feet per decade in the city. With the University's continuing development in Cambridge and its acquisition of 52 acres of land in the Boston suburb of Allston, the expansion will continue well into the 21st century...
...alleged attacker was Michael Abram, 33, from the Liverpool suburb of Huyton. Nicknamed "Mad Mike" by neighborhood children, Abram was occasionally seen listening to a Walkman and serenading no one in particular from the balcony of his apartment. His mother told the Liverpool Echo that he had recently become obsessed with the Beatles but "hates them and even believes they are witches." He wore a Walkman, she said, "to stop voices in his head...