Word: binghamton
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...able to perform abortions. The Allentown Women's Center in Pennsylvania can offer them in large part because one day each week Dr. Amy Cousins makes the 120-mile drive from New York City. On two other days she treks 200 miles north to provide the same service in Binghamton, N.Y., where the antiabortion group Operation Rescue has its headquarters. "I can't get anybody to cover for me," she says. "So I don't go on vacation...
...class valedictorian at the State University of New York, Binghamton, in 1968, "when it was full of radicals." The students were throwing off '50s shackles and looking to other cultures for solutions. The Doors' battle cry, "We want the world, We want it now," exhilarated Paglia. After four restless years at Yale getting her Ph.D. in English, she found herself teaching at Bennington...
...conscious city (pop. 304,000) prefers to resolve its internal disputes -- which customarily involve school-board squabbles or debates over nude dancing in bars -- away from the glare of media attention. Thus there was some local discomfort in mid-July, when Operation Rescue, an aggressive antiabortion group based in Binghamton, N.Y., set up blockades outside three local clinics; one of them is among the few that perform late abortions. TV cameras soon followed, since the protests turned out to be anything but passive. As they have done in other cities, the Operation Rescue vigilantes physically tried to prevent employees...
...traditions, customs and values which attracted immigrants to these shores in the first place." Also appended, somewhat jarringly in the prescribed context of racial and ethnic harmony, is a lengthy statement by Ali A. Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at the State University of New York, Binghamton, arguing that the word holocaust should not be reserved exclusively for the Jewish experience under the Nazis. American Indians and African Americans, the professor insists, have a right to that term as well...
Education: SUNY Binghamton...