Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genetic, you're saying you can't change it. That isn't what it means," insists Christopher Jencks, the liberal social scientist. "If you say breast cancer is hereditary, it tells you nothing about whether you can cure breast cancer." Craig Ramey, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, studied poor children who were enrolled as infants in a multiyear program that provided them and their mothers with health care and a stimulating learning environment. Many of them developed and sustained normal IQs of around 100, while those in a control group were as much as 20 points...
...mathematics prize was awarded to the Southern Baptist Church of Alabama for its county by county estimate of how many Alabamian citizens will go to hell if they don't repent. And the physics prize was given to the Japanese Meterological Agency, for its seven-year study on whether earthquake are caused by catfish moving their tails...
...Alabama 29, Georgia...
...green-eyed brunette had scored high in the swimsuit competition. She had received repeated ovations during her talent program, a ballet set to the religious pop anthem Via Dolorosa. But it was during the beauty contest's final, brief Q&A that Miss Alabama, 21, performed her most moving feat. She answered a question. Her voice was a bit fluty and her consonants soft, but the college junior clearly understood Regis Philbin's query about self- realization; and her reply, a paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf...
...chapter of the Knights. "He goes to great lengths not to say anything controversial that might alienate people from giving him money." In April, Ed Novak, born Ed Melkonian and an ex-lieutenant of Robb's, started a rival Klan out of Chicago. According to Klanwatch, based in Montgomery, Alabama, Novak's Federation of Klans has siphoned off at least a third of Robb's members nationwide. "This group is more likely to embrace the neo- Nazi, swastika-wearing segment of extremists," says Klanwatch director Danny Welch...