Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crystal grew, so did his fascination. Inthe summer of 1991, after ninth grade--he skippedeight grade--Thiessen worked with crystal lographyresearchers at the University of Alabama inBirmingham...
Meet Mother Angelica, 71, improbable superstar of religious broadcasting and arguably the most influential Roman Catholic woman in America. In her day job, Mother Angelica is abbess of Our Lady of the Angels Franciscan monastery in Irondale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. More famously, this self-taught telenun is board chairman (she deplores all-inclusive language) of Eternal Word Television Network, which reaches 36.8 million cable-equipped American homes via 1,204 affiliate systems. The largest of America's three all-religion cable networks, Mother Angelica's channel is going international. On Aug. 15, EWTN will begin 24-hour daily...
...first time in its storied history, the University of Alabama's football team will be put on NCAA probation. Three seasons after winning its sixth national championship, the team was given three years of sanctions for displaying "a distressing failure of institutional control" over players. Investigators said the university violated NCAA rules by not reporting that cornerback cornerback Antonio Langham had illegally signed a contract with an agent...
DIED. ONNIE LEE LOGAN, 85, midwife and memoirist; in Mobile, Alabama. For half a century, Logan delivered the babies of impoverished black families. In 1989 she published her reminiscences, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, which became a best-selling feminist classic...
...Nazi and Soviet death-labor camps--extreme examples of human inhumanity--the idealist editor fails to describe the nature of contemporary chain gang labor. Instead, Altman compares the disease-ridden prison camps of early 20th century America to the most horrible places of extermination know to recorded history. Alabama prisoners who today collect waste from the roadsides, and who suffer through heat, cold and embarrassment, face only the indignity which they brought upon themselves, rather then the certain and horrible death which millions of innocents endured merely because they were born. Mr. Altman, comparisons such as yours do not under...