Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nancy L. Naugle Auburn, Alabama...
...Dell Wills from Mississippi to Chicago in 1950 neared its destination, the sharecroppers' son could hardly contain his excitement. "When we hit the city limits," he recalls, "I said, 'Wow! I'm home free. This is heaven.'" Fifteen years later, Dorothy Tillman, a civil rights worker arriving from Alabama, saw the high-rise apartment buildings where most blacks then lived and had a different reaction. "Look at all them there factories in the middle of the city," she said to her companion. "Those are not factories," he replied. "People live there...
...people who lived through it. They are mostly anonymous folks, free of sanctimony or self-importance. People like Uless Carter, a bespectacled, Mississippi-born minister, who reminisces with the sweet-tempered grace of a character in a John Ford western. Or James Hinton, one of 22 children of Alabama sharecroppers, who later owned a Chicago barbershop and whose gentle, unhurried gravity is something close to poetry. Like this series...
...supposed to boost their flagging immune system and decrease the amount of virus circulating in the blood. But new research, reported last month by teams led by Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and Dr. George Shaw of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, suggests that this so-called therapeutic-vaccine approach may be the wrong way to go. They found that even during the early stages of infection, the immune system is already working hard, and a vaccination probably would not provide a boost. In light of his own research...
Barbara Tucker, 36, of Alexander City, Alabama, has been on three talk shows to berate her "bitch" of a sister-in-law. She regrets the last time, when she went on Springer's show with several other family members. "We shouldn't have gone on. I got upset on that show. [Afterward] my mother didn't speak to my brother for a long time." Still, she wants to do more: "I like to get out there and priss." Michelle Van Buren, 31, of Olivette, Missouri, went on Geraldo and talked about men who lie and cheat. She admits that...