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...Gilchrist '98, an Alabama resident, was having dinner one night with a friend. In the middle of the conversation, his companion suddenly couldn't contain himself any longer...
...Before the elections, whenever I talked to anyone from Alabama we'd talk about that," Gilchrist says...
...realm of long- running entertainment phenoms, Sherlock Holmes has more history; James Bond, more class; Star Wars and Indiana Jones, more cinematic cachet. And while no one sneers at the Baker Street Irregulars, noninitiates consider Trekkies to be pretty odd: Trekkies like Pete Mohney, a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, who leads a double life as captain of his local Starfleet "ship," the Hephaestus NC-2004, and publisher of a 40-page Trekkie newsletter; or Jerry Murphy, a Sugar Grove, Illinois, business manager and father of two, who is commander of a local Klingon club and frequently dresses...
...federal medical funding is getting tighter, but not for therapeutic touch. Over the past decade, the nih has awarded at least $150,000 in grants for TT research; and the Department of Defense, through Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has just awarded a University of Alabama researcher the largest TT grant yet: $355,000 to study the effects of the practice on burn patients. "What next for the dod?" asks Scheiber. "Faith healing...
Republicans won eight seats and got a bonus ninth when Richard Shelby, Democrat of Alabama, switched parties, bringing the new G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Among the big-name Democrats felled by voters were Tennessee's Jim Sasser and Pennsylvania's Harris Wofford. A number of struggling Democrats survived: Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Virginia's Charles Robb (who beat out controversial Iran-contra figure Oliver North) and, apparently, California's Dianne Feinstein. Kansas' Bob Dole, a possible presidential contender, will become the new Senate majority leader. Colleagues in line to head key committees include Strom...