Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their marriage was coming apart, and it ended in divorce. He accused her of infidelity, and she later accused him of physically abusing her. Shah denied her allegations, but they exacerbated a custody battle that led Dever to seek out the controversial Faye Yager, an Atlanta woman who has helped alleged abuse victims disappear into an international underground. Shortly after her contact with Yager, Dever and her daughters vanished. Shah then won custody of the girls in court, and Dever was charged with child concealment and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...
MARGARET EDSON seems less concerned with being the next Eugene O'Neill than making sure a group of five-year-olds has a tidy work space. On learning that she had won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, Wit, the Atlanta kindergarten teacher's immediate response was to keep cleaning her classroom. Edson wrote Wit in 1991, when she was working at a bicycle shop. The unsentimental story of a woman dying of ovarian cancer wended its way through various regional theaters before ending up off-Broadway six months ago. Edson, 37, says she has no firm plans to write...
...Rothbaum and computer scientist Larry Hodges to combat fear of heights, VR exposure therapy works on the principle that if you can train people to relax in a simulation of a scary situation, they will relax when confronted with the real thing. I visited the Virtually Better clinic in Atlanta, which charges $150 for a one-hour session. It provides a headset and plane seat that immerse you in a 3-D virtual airplane, complete with vibrations, engine sounds, flight-attendant call bells, and--at touchdown--tire squeals...
...right. My first reaction, once I got moving, was, "Wow! This is fun!" I loved how the picture changed onscreen whenever I moved my head. Swinging to the left, I could peer out a window and see the Atlanta skyline; looking up, I saw overhead bins; straight ahead was my pull-down tray and a row of empty seats. Sure, some essential details were missing--barf bags, crying babies, passengers jabbing me with their elbows--but that was O.K. It would have taken a lot more than that to fool me into thinking I was really flying...
...Westwood, Will, a student senator, has turned much of his attention to Florida's successful youth antismoking campaign, but he's stayed close to the recycling operation he started. Whenever he travels to Atlanta to see his grandparents, who don't recycle, he bags up their cans and hauls them back to his bins and crushers in Gainesville, but not before he tries to see an Atlanta Braves game. Will is a big baseball fan, and he would just love to keep Gainesville's schoolyards as green and clean as the field his idols play...