Word: birmingham
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...Cherry and his father Bobby Frank Cherry are separated by 200 ft. and four ghosts. The Cherrys both hail from Birmingham, Ala., but the family pulled up roots in 1971. Too many secrets, too many whispers. "It was time to leave that place," says Tom, 47. "Every time you turned around, some Cherry was getting into trouble--because of the name." Now Tom lives in Mabank, Texas, a tiny town of about 2,000 souls buried deep in the piney woods 50 miles southeast of Dallas. His father lives nearby--Tom can see Bobby's place from his front porch...
...news comes courtesy of an American Lung Association study, released Tuesday, that rates the air quality in cities across the nation - and hands failing grades to nearly half. Those receiving F's include a broad cluster of California cities, as well as many other, less predictable metropolitan areas like Birmingham, Ala., and Wilmington, Del. Leaping to the defense of recent, tougher anti-smog regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency has already criticized the report, claiming the ALA rankings, while technically accurate, don't represent the efforts of many pollution-prone cities, like Los Angeles, to improve overall air quality, and, indeed...
...contrast, 1,100 miles to the north, in Wilmington, Del., 73-year-old Allen Smith is about to lose his home in bankruptcy court. Smith was born in Birmingham, Ala., and served in the Coast Guard during World War II. After his discharge in 1945, he attended an auto-mechanics school in Detroit and then went to work as a metal finisher and body repairman for Chrysler. The company transferred him to its Delaware plant in 1959, where he worked until he was forced out after 35 years during one of the automaker's downsizings...
...does decide to run, he will likely face opposition from one of a number of Democratic officials--including State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 and State House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran...
...petition will tentatively be delivered to Gov. A. Paul Cellucci, Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 (D-Boston), House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan) and other state legislators in Boston on May 9, according to Ari M. Lipman '00, a member of the campaign...