Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RETIRED. CHARLES BARKLEY, 36, NBA rebound king and quote machine, following a career-ending knee injury on his farewell tour; in Philadelphia. Barkley made the All-Stars 11 times in his 16-year career and has said he may run for Governor of Alabama...
...like him now because I realize that he accomplished everything as a misfit. He was from Alabama when most players were from the cities. His size made him too short to be a power forward and too fat to be a small forward. But he learned to shoot the jumper, to take the ball down low in the post, and to make the steal or the block...
...Cole's rereleased album The Christmas Song--should remedy things. The biographer sometimes digs too deep into esoterica, spending pages analyzing the lyrics of Straighten Up and Fly Right, for example. But when he recounts the singer's personal struggles, including a shocking 1956 onstage kidnapping attempt by Alabama racists, the human drama is, well, unforgettable...
...some cities are targeting a whole different population for arrest: truants' parents. According to a report in Monday's New York Times, one Alabama parent was recently sentenced to 60 days in prison for failing to police a chronic truant. While these programs have shown some early success, they raise some hefty ethical questions - should we put kids in control of sending their parents to jail? Can the single parent of a grown high school student make his or her child go to school? As with most areas of education reform, there don't seem to be any simple solutions...
...researchers conducted telephone interviews with about 1400 patients from Alabama, California, Michigan, Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. All of the patients had been on dialysis at least 10 months...