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Aaron was born in Mobile, Alabama, on February 5, 1934, the third oldest of eight children...
...threat began in the 1930s, when the aggressive red fire ants came to Mobile, Alabama, perhaps on shiploads of lumber imported from the insects' home territory in South America (the milder-mannered black fire ant had arrived, also from the Southern Hemisphere, in 1918). In the 1950s and early '60s concerned government officials tried to eradicate the insects with such powerful chemicals as heptachlor and mirex. The program was later dubbed "the Vietnam of entomology" for both its destructiveness and its futility. The poisons killed not only their targets but also most other wildlife in the treated areas...
...differences like gender, religion, and region could be represented within the ranks of the college faculty, why couldn't qualified minorities add to the faculty's diversity? I find more than a little irony in the fact that I had more minority teachers in my Montgomery, Alabama high school than I have during my entire time at Harvard. My time here has proven that the Deep South is not the only part of America where racial inclusion is a challenge...
...recent recommendation by the Pentagon to move the world's only known school using lethal nerve agents from Fort McClellan in Alabama to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri has sparked a ferocious public relations battle. As Alabama partisans engage in guerrilla warfare to sabotage the move and keep the facility, Missouri is in such a rush to claim the prize that some of its citizens fear the state is cutting corners and keeping them in the dark...
...Missouri town vacated 12 years ago because of its dioxin-laced soil. Suddenly, the pollsters found opponents outnumbering supporters nearly 2 to 1. Although labeled "privileged and confidential," copies of the $5,000 telephone survey are mysteriously ending up in the hands of reporters and environmentalists in both Alabama and Missouri...