Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years later, a kid destined for nothing not so long before was playing for D-I Alabama. Four years later, the Golden State Warriors made him the 24th overall pick in the 1992 draft...
...Alabama, Sprewell hooked up his alarm clock to thunderous stereo speakers to avoid missing the team's early-morning practices. He had discipline, but it was a fragile discipline shaped exclusively by basketball...
...long after the Air Force abandoned its corps of chimps and monkeys to other scientific custodians, Marilyn is getting belated recognition. In this week's Nature, researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham report that Marilyn's frozen tissue, carefully preserved all these years, may have solved a pair of lingering medical mysteries: where the dominant form of the AIDS virus originated in the animal world, and how it made the deadly leap to humans. More than brilliant scientific detective work, the Alabama research, if it turns out to be correct, could lead to new treatments and possibly even...
...monkey called the sooty mangabey is the natural reservoir of a virus very similar to HIV-2, which causes a milder form of AIDS found largely in western Africa. But the source of HIV-1, the dominant cause of the AIDS pandemic, has remained elusive to virus hunters like Alabama's Dr. Beatrice Hahn. Long on the trail of links between HIV and kindred simian viruses, she jumped at the chance to examine old tissue samples (stored, as it turns out, in a freezer at the National Cancer Institute) from the only chimp in the Air Force colony to have...
...even some older, repeat offenders are getting punishments that seem ridiculously disproportionate to their crimes. Consider Douglas Gray, a husband, father, Vietnam veteran and owner of a roofing business who bought a pound of marijuana in an Alabama motel for $900 several years ago. The seller turned out to be a police informant, a felon fresh from prison whom cops paid $100 to do the deal. Because Gray had been arrested for several petty crimes 13 years earlier--crimes that didn't even carry a prison sentence--he fell under the state's "habitual offender" statutes. He got life without...