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Like most Americans, Audrey Brantley, 42, of Birmingham, Alabama, thinks it would be a good idea to get more exercise, eat less fat and lose a few pounds. Until now those decisions have been hers to make. But Brantley, who works for the city as a library assistant, is enrolled in a new kind of health-and-wellness program that has the right, under certain circumstances, to tell her what kind of shape she should try to get into--or take away her insurance coverage. The program, which is run by the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Nursing...
...such actions by Governor Clinton imply either ignorance or an arrogant contempt for ethical conduct. These are not admirable people, and no amount of spin can change that. The question of character and integrity will loom as large as that of political ideology in the presidential election. KEN FAUST Birmingham, Alabama...
...leaves a sister-in-law, Anna Areeda of Birmingham, Michigan; two nieces, Michelle Areeda of Beverly Hills, Michigan and Marianne Taylor of Williamsburg, Virginia; and a nephew, Joseph Areeda of Los Angeles...
...conversation, says Michael. "She already knew the world was like that,'' he says. "This is a family that knows. The stories of my mother and grandfather sitting in the house with guns in their hands ready to shoot whoever came up the driveway are true. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Little girls were blown up in churches for no reason...
...segregated America, Alma Johnson was born into an extraordinary family, a tight-knit clan of teachers, principals, librarians and social workers, who helped form the core of Birmingham's black middle class. That community pushed the civil rights struggle as hard as any in America; the struggle was a fact of life, but it didn't define Alma. "We were going to school, falling in love, shopping for clothes, being teenagers," says her best friend from those days, Yvonne Hamilton. "Confronting white power wasn't high on our list." Whip smart, Alma graduated from high school at 16 and from...