Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incident would be horrific enough if it were isolated. But on that same day in Lamar, Mo., two pit bulls killed a four-year-old boy while he was playing on a lawn. On April 11, a four-year-old boy in North Carolina was slain by a Rottweiler when the child tried to retrieve a football from a fenced yard. In Prairie Village, Kans., on Feb. 22, a six-year-old boy was so brutally attacked in his own backyard by an akita that he needed 100 stitches and reconstructive facial surgery...
...made more than a dozen out-of-town trips to talk up foreign policy with Americans or to let influential Senators show her off with constituents. Her most ardent courtship has been of Senator Jesse Helms, the Foreign Relations Committee's curmudgeonly chairman whose home state of North Carolina Albright has visited twice. During her trip there last March, she spoke at Helms' alma mater and attended a birthday dinner for his wife. When Albright boarded the Air Force jet to return to Washington, she found on her seat a bag of barbecue he had had delivered...
...more than half the 25-to-33-year-olds. Without a Vietnam War, the new generation is less polarized. "Young people today are not as struck by life's fragility," says John Gardner, head of the National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience at the University of South Carolina. "They're not thinking about thermonuclear Armageddon...
...unembellished," says Yankelovich's Smith. The hit TV show X-Files weaves in layered story lines and leaves questions unresolved. In MTV News Unfiltered, viewers call in story ideas and the network sends out video cameras for them to record their own segments. On last month's show, South Carolina's underground tattoo artists told of their efforts to legalize the practice of body art, and a 16-year-old Oregonian recounted her hard life as a single mother. "Generation X actively pursues the deflation of the ideal," says Karen Ritchie in her book, Marketing to Generation X. "No icon...
Feaster's determination has translated into success both academically and on the basketball court, as she was both her school valedictorian and "Miss Basketball South Carolina" as a high school senior...