Less than a generation ago, this densely populated suburb was a bucolic town at the foot of the Highlands; today, environmentalists point to Parsippany's spreading crop of low-rise office parks and strip malls as an example of unplanned development run amok.
A few years ago, the "carefreeblackgirl" hashtag populated social media with photos of black women with candy-colored afros and waist-length braids adorned with flower crowns.
Landlords with shattered dreams of capitalizing on the dot-com boom now want to accelerate the neighborhood's transformation by condensing the district largely into haute couture and other showrooms -- there are now 1,200 -- and opening onetime manufacturing lofts to architects, advertisers, sculptors and the kind of homesteaders who populated SoHo a generation ago.
Proponents say that while the at-large system, with all members of the town board chosen by everyone in town, worked well enough for the lightly populated agrarian Long Island of a century ago, it makes much less sense in the densely populated suburbs of today.
No-dig technology, which includes microtunneling (for boring holes up to 36 inches in diameter) and horizontal directional drilling (for holes around 15 inches or less), was developed 20 years ago to install utility lines under densely populated cities.
In my new book, Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges OverranTheir Evolutionary Purpose, I describe how human instincts -- for food, sex, or territorial protection -- developed for life on the Savannah 10,000 years ago, not today's world of densely populated cities, technological innovations, and pollution.
Deb's search for rice varieties began nearly 20 years ago in remote areas of West Bengal largely populated by indigenous people.
The sarcophagus was built 25 years ago in a panic, as radiation streamed into populated areas after an explosion at the reactor, and now it is riddled with cracks.
There wasn't a penny of federal aid for "first responders" -- like those firefighters and police officers who cheered Mr. Bush at ground zero -- until a few months ago, and much of it went to sparsely populated states.
It still sometimes feels like spring New management, old divisions Glum for gays ReprintsTen years ago, when Mr Lieberman first proposed moving Arab-populated Israeli towns near the present border into Palestine in exchange for Jewish settlement blocs in the Palestinians' West Bank being incorporated into Israel, he was branded a racist firebrand.
