Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enjolique Aytch of Atlanta was not fated to be a good student. When she was 10 months old, she suffered a seizure and fell into a coma for 24 hours. Doctors warned her mother Cheryl that Enjolique would probably be mentally disabled. Cheryl didn't buy that prognosis. She was convinced that both Enjolique and her older brother Richard were "naturally intelligent" and that all she had to do was offer the right stimulation. "Babies have such a thirst for knowledge! If you can capture their imagination right then, it seems to last forever, but if you let that window...
...Terry, they have tidy rooms with a designated place for everything. Like Sarah Seidman, they have long attention spans at a young age. "There's a strong correlation between a good student and things like time management and organization," notes Dan Walls, dean of admissions of Emory University in Atlanta. Kids blessed with these qualities may have a natural advantage over kids who have to struggle to keep order--although those who keep up the struggle will ultimately develop persistence, the most valuable trait a student can have...
...Atlanta Braves...
Yankees... Padres? The 1998 World Series slate is set after San Diego finally finished off the heavily favored Atlanta Braves with a 5-0 victory Wednesday night at Turner Field in Atlanta. It's a matchup few expected. While the high-expectation Yankees are chasing history, the Pods are just chasing legitimacy: San Diego hasn't been to the Series since 1984, when team star Tony Gwynn was just a pup in an ugly brown-and-orange uniform...
...claims to have forensic evidence linking Rudolph to the Olympic attack and the bombing of an Atlanta gay bar. A Nashville couple that sells ammunition at gun shows has told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that they believe they sold Rudolph the gunpowder used in the Atlanta attack. The idea that the additional charges will succeed where a $1 million reward, a 200-person task force and the intervention of militia leader James "Bo" Gritz failed may seem like wishful thinking, but it's not as if the FBI has much else...