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...this crowd, Travis is the proud traditionalist. He has not redefined country so much as reminded everyone of its truest instincts. "I don't like to hear a country singer doing crossover," he admits. "Young people started turning their radios to hear Alabama and Kenny Rogers, and they began to hear George Strait and Ricky Skaggs." It is not necessary to press Travis' good country manners by asking his candid opinion of Rogers. The performers who command his respect can be heard in the echoes his music stirs: Strait and Skaggs and, especially, George Jones, and, reaching further back...
...which I will inherit one-twentieth someday. It is land whose history is that of a great grandfather who played on the LSU football team that beat Yale and went on to win the national championship around Quentin's era at Harvard and of a grandfather who walked from Alabama to Texas because there were free schoolbooks in Texas...
...among those who had given early credence to the news from Zurich was a small, modestly equipped team of researchers headed by Paul C.W. Chu of the University of Houston. Chu had been studying superconductivity since 1965; now he and his group, including scientists from the University of Alabama, quickly reproduced the IBM results and moved on to their own experiments...
...team tried lanthanum, the rare-earth* component of the IBM compound. Maw-Kuen Wu, head of the team's Alabama unit and a former graduate student of Chu's, replaced the lanthanum with another rare-earth element, yttrium...
...Mobro's ill-starred journey resulted from a deal made by Alabama Entrepreneur Lowell Harrelson, founder of National Waste Contractors, Inc., to haul away a massive batch of refuse from Islip, N.Y., and other townships. After being freighted with the garbage -- which was mashed into some 2,200 untidy bundles by a giant compactor -- Harrelson's leased barge was hitched to the tugboat Break of Dawn and set sail on March...