In Guatemala City, a hilly sprawl of three million souls, Mr. Abd set out to learn the stories of the gang members, how and why they joined, and their internal codes.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Wasatch Range, towering over an arid, urban sprawl of a million people, provides two important assets that are increasingly at odds — a vital supply of water for residents and pristine snow for a ski industry that rakes in $1.2 billion a year.
Several practice sessions this week drew 100 to 200 onlookers, some of whom abandoned their slot machines to sprawl on three sets of aluminum bleachers the casino had set up for observers.
Chabon's third novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000), was the sprawling tale of two Jewish cousins who, at the cusp of the comic book phenomenon that began in the mid-1930s, devise a superhero and shepherd him to fame in the pages of their own serial.
His best-known book, "No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), is a sprawling tale of two families, one Puerto Rican and one Irish, and their intertwining over several generations.
Leading Marie Fehmer — and Youngblood, who had said that he would not leave his side until the plane was in the air — into the Kennedys' bedroom, he closed the door, pulled off the jacket of his suit, and sprawled on one of the beds.
Tucson, as anyone who has been there knows, is a strangely ambivalent place: an urban sprawl of a million inhabitants, dropped into the dramatic beauty of a desert.
"If New Yorkers lived at the typical American sprawl density of three households per residential acre, they would require many times as much land.
The city wasn't yet the sprawling metropolis of seven million that it is today, and many people still lived in the picturesque wooden houses of the old town.
