Word: birmingham
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...Bone deal, which peaked in 1992, was only the beginning. Before long he had expanded to five other cities, as far east as Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta. It was a cross-country advance that was halted only by an intense investigation coordinated by the FBI over five states, which included the arrest this month of a fugitive who had been on the run since September 1993. The so-called Eight Trey Gangster Crips network is estimated to have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street...
Finally, around April 1993, Q extended his network all the way to Birmingham. That city was to afford investigators the clearest glimpse into one of Q's distant branches. Following a number of scouting trips to test the local market, an enterprising threesome flew into the city to stay. Two were among Q's suspected Crip affiliates, Horace (``Dink'') Slaughter, 29, brother of Book, and Larry (``Drak'') Neal, 29, both of whom weighed more than 260 lbs. The third was a petite, reddish-haired woman from Long Beach, California, named Renee Stephens. For the team's headquarters, Stephens rented...
Thiessen's experiments became more than just a hobby when he was invited by Dr. Charlie Bugg to come work at the Center for Macro-Molecular Crystalography at the University of Alabama at Birmingham during the summer before he entered the tenth grade. There, he learned about the agarose gel technique...
...boost their flagging immune system and decrease the amount of virus circulating in the blood. But new research, reported last month by teams led by Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and Dr. George Shaw of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, suggests that this so-called therapeutic-vaccine approach may be the wrong way to go. They found that even during the early stages of infection, the immune system is already working hard, and a vaccination probably would not provide a boost. In light of his own research and an early...
Nowhere have I seen this more intensely than in race relations on campus. True, as President Neil L. Rudenstine has told me in interviews, it's not Bosnia. Nor is it Birmingham in 1950. But is a pretty tense place to be at times...