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...Mary Hunter Benton, 15, says she gets up at 5 a.m. each day to make morning practice and often does not get home until 7 p.m. on weeknights. Weekends are spent traveling the country to do performances, such as the upcoming halftime show at the Army-Navy men's basketball game on January 21. "The crowd always loves the 'rodeo,' where you're bouncing on your butt. They always find that fascinating," notes team member Krishinda Lee, 22, who is a junior at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill...
...progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde, his example hung in the air like the moon, out of reach but never out of sight...
...pseudonym she used to protect her family in North Korea) is about to meet, for the first time, the men responsible for saving her life. One is Kim Sang Hun, a lay Christian from Seoul. The other is the Rev. Tim Peters, a soft-spoken evangelical Christian pastor from Benton Harbor, Mich., who runs the Seoul-based charity Helping Hands Korea. More than any other Westerner, Peters has become the public face of a network of activists, many motivated by their Christian faith, who have devoted their lives to helping North Koreans, including many living illegally in China, escape...
...clear from the moment Jim Chatters first saw the partial skeleton that no crime had been committed - none recent enough to be prosecutable, anyway. Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, had been called in by the coroner of Benton County, Wash., to consult on some bones found by two college students on the banks of the Columbia River, near the town of Kennewick. The bones were obviously old, and when the coroner asked for an opinion, Chatters' off-the-cuff guess, based on the skull's superficially Caucasoid features, was that they probably belonged to a settler from the late 1800s...
...after they were found to have broken rules against drinking in their dorm rooms, according to The Northerner student newspaper. The students at Northern Kentucky join countless other students around the country who are being held accountable for information posted on Facebook.Just last month, according to the Benton County Daily Record, John Brown University, a private Christian school in Arkansas, expelled Michael Guinn for being in violation of the school’s campus lifestyle guidelines. Guinn had posted numerous pieces of information on Facebook and his Xanga blog that indicated he was gay.The most frightening case to date, however...