Word: birmingham
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...realm of long- running entertainment phenoms, Sherlock Holmes has more history; James Bond, more class; Star Wars and Indiana Jones, more cinematic cachet. And while no one sneers at the Baker Street Irregulars, noninitiates consider Trekkies to be pretty odd: Trekkies like Pete Mohney, a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, who leads a double life as captain of his local Starfleet "ship," the Hephaestus NC-2004, and publisher of a 40-page Trekkie newsletter; or Jerry Murphy, a Sugar Grove, Illinois, business manager and father of two, who is commander of a local Klingon club and frequently dresses...
...saying you can't change it. That isn't what it means," insists Christopher Jencks, the liberal social scientist. "If you say breast cancer is hereditary, it tells you nothing about whether you can cure breast cancer." Craig Ramey, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, studied poor children who were enrolled as infants in a multiyear program that provided them and their mothers with health care and a stimulating learning environment. Many of them developed and sustained normal IQs of around 100, while those in a control group were as much as 20 points lower. The Bell...
Indeed, linguistic politics interest her far less than her own, very mainstream motivational program, called STARS because it has five points ("positive attitude," "a dream," "hard work," "knowing your problems but not letting them master you" and "a support team"). The system has already been introduced in a Birmingham-area school. In fact, the acounting major is currently considering a career change: "Maybe I'll be a math teacher or a counselor, so that I could see young people every...
Such optimism is comforting and, in a global perspective, almost certainly correct. National boundaries become ever less important in the world's economies; a job is a job, whether it be in Budapest, Buenos Aires or Birmingham, Alabama. Still, certain ancient human emotions have not yet adapted to the new realities. Some of the new expatriates tell of encountering resistance from their parents. When Rob Swift, 23, graduated from Stanford last year with a degree in international relations and announced that he had found a job in India, his mother offered to pay him to stay behind...
...minors are not a get-rich-quick scheme," says Bob Sparks of the National Association of Professional Leagues, which oversees all but one of the leagues. The minors are on track to draw 32 million spectators this season, buoyed in part by the attendance explosion in Birmingham, Alabama, where Michael Jordan has mastered the craft of striking...