Word: alabamas
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Like most Americans, Audrey Brantley, 42, of Birmingham, Alabama, thinks it would be a good idea to get more exercise, eat less fat and lose a few pounds. Until now those decisions have been hers to make. But Brantley, who works for the city as a library assistant, is enrolled in a new kind of health-and-wellness program that has the right, under certain circumstances, to tell her what kind of shape she should try to get into--or take away her insurance coverage. The program, which is run by the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Nursing...
DIED. CHARLES ALFRED ANDERSON, 89, African-American aviator who trained the decorated black World War II pilots "the Tuskegee Airmen"; in Tuskegee, Alabama...
Even the winners of this war between the states may have lingering doubts about the price they have paid. Alabama pledged property-tax relief and other giveaways worth some $250 million--or more than $160,000 per job--to persuade Mercedes-Benz to locate in the town of Vance (pop. 400) a $520 million plant that will begin building sport-utility vehicles next year. A new crop of state leaders declare that their predecessors could have driven a harder bargain...
...actions by Governor Clinton imply either ignorance or an arrogant contempt for ethical conduct. These are not admirable people, and no amount of spin can change that. The question of character and integrity will loom as large as that of political ideology in the presidential election. KEN FAUST Birmingham, Alabama...
...INCLINE VILLAGE, NEV.; retired nurse When Adams won $9.3 million at the slots in Reno in 1992, giving was first on her mind. Initially, she helped her husband, two sons, six sisters and three brothers. Then she donated pews and stained-glass windows to her childhood church in Alabama. Today she funds three $1,000 college scholarships each year and contributes to numerous academic and medical-research organizations. "Anything I've had I've always shared," says Adams. "Now I can share money...