Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December 1989, mail bombs killed Judge Robert S. Vance of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals at his home in Alabama and Robert E. Robinson, a civil rights attorney, at his office in Georgia. Last week Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was convicted of all 71 federal charges stemming from the slayings at a trial in St. Paul. Against the advice of his lawyers, Moody took the witness stand to provide a rambling account of his sex life and blame the Ku Klux Klan for the killings...
...theorists, but deeply pragmatic crusaders who barnstorm the country, lecturing, evangelizing, designing, bit by bit repairing and redeeming the American landscape. So far the couple and their colleagues have proposed, at the behest of developers, more than 30 new towns ranging from Tannin, a 70-acre hamlet in Alabama, to Nance Canyon, a 3,050-acre, 5,250-unit New Age town near Chico, Calif. Half a dozen such towns are already under construction. Seaside, their widely publicized prototype town in northern Florida, is more than half built. At Kentlands, a new town on the edge of Maryland suburbia outside...
...Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...
...method is also subjective. One expert remarked that all he can tell his medical students is that the gland feels "like the soft skin at the base of the thumb" while a tumor feels "like a knuckle." Concluded Dr. William Cooner, a PSA expert at the University of South Alabama: "The rectal examination has served us very poorly." Several alternatives have been tried over the years, the most recent being an ultrasound probe. Although this proved somewhat effective and is now used to confirm diagnoses, at $200 to $300 an exam it is too costly to use for routine screening...
...death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid," says Bryan Stevenson, the director of Alabama's Capital Representation Resource Center. Fair enough. Just whom do Americans fear -- and whom do they care about? The answers to these questions of life and death lie in a set of dry but startling statistics...