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Alfred L. Brophy is a professor of law at the University of Alabama. His book Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921—Race, Reparations, Reconciliation will be published by Oxford University Press in November...
Study nature, not books!" advised the great 19th century naturalist Louis Agassiz. As a boy growing up in Alabama and northern Florida, Edward Osborne Wilson did both. By day he scoured fields, forests and streams. At night he pored over books and magazines. It was an article in National Geographic ("Stalking Ants, Savage and Civilized") that launched, at the ripe age of 9, one of the great scientific careers of the late 20th century, a career that began in entomology--with a particular passion for ants--but that has since reinvented itself with remarkable frequency, expanding its scope to encompass...
...states across the U.S. rewrite their rules governing assisted living, most, like Michigan, have deferred to the wishes of the industry. Many of Kentucky's new regulations apply only to facilities that have yet to be built. Alabama has just six inspectors to oversee more than 300 assisted-living centers. In Minnesota attorney general Hatch proposed a consumer-rights bill that would require facilities to disclose fully such key information as staff training and treatment protocol. But even that bill was watered down so much--it includes no required training or inspection--that Hatch now admits that...
...play Chinese checkers. Her specialty was miniature still lifes, usually just a few inches wide. DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the 1970s U.S. rock band that sold 35 million albums and is best known for its songs Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama; in his sleep, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Wilkeson survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the group. He and the remaining members reformed the band in 1987 and were in the midst of a U.S. tour. RETIRED. MICHAEL FLATLEY, 42, the flashy and temperamental Irish-American star...
...Times Free Press here in Chattanooga, Tenn. That’s where most of my friends—and excitement—have come from. My only tough week was the first week, when I wrote a few hard-hitting stories about a student who had died in Alabama. When I finally got school officials on the phone, more than a day after I began, I managed to spark their wrath. “Are you a bloodthirsty vampire?” one of them asked. “No, I am not a bloodthirsty vampire...