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...public school textbooks. As a result, pupils returning to reading classes in Hawkins County, Tenn., can still be required to tackle the themes in The Wizard of Oz and The Diary of Anne Frank, among a * host of other books deemed "godless" by a group of parents. And in Alabama, teachers will still be using 44 texts that Fundamentalists had sued to remove for promoting the "religion" of secular humanism...
Nunn was keeping his own counsel about his willingness to march, even as many legislators in Little Rock were ready to play Strike Up the Band. Some placed in their name-tag holders small preprinted cards that read SAM NUNN, WHERE ARE YOU? The cards were the handiwork of Alabama State Representative Claude Walker, a Nunn supporter, who claimed, "If he were here, he'd be recognized as the front runner." Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, who flirted with his own presidential candidacy, said, "Sam Nunn would be a bona fide candidate. He would make a difference...
...Senate Judiciary Committee, assuring the lawmakers that he would bring no prejudices to the court. Five Democratic committee members, however, are expected to vote against Bork, while five Republicans have declared their support. The three most likely swing votes: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Whatever the Judiciary Committee decides, the Bork nomination has become so controversial that the final battle over confirmation will take place in the full Senate...
Surveying 11,600 houses in ten states from Wyoming to Alabama, EPA investigators found that 21% had radon levels exceeding EPA health standards. The American Medical Association promptly declared radon a "risk of substantial magnitude" but described as "somewhat uncertain" federal estimates that attribute 10% of lung-cancer deaths...
Alligator populations rebounded rapidly. Says Klinger: "All we had to do was stop the poachers, and the gators did the rest." In Alabama, for example, biologists reported a tenfold increase in alligators between the mid-1970s and the early '80s. By 1985 the FWS declared the animal no longer endangered in Louisiana, Florida and Texas, where 90% of the animals live, and last month it extended that decision to the seven other states where gators are found. "We've got more alligators than we know what to do with," exclaims Klinger, who says there may now be several million...