Word: carolina
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...Harvard women's basketball finishes the Ivy League season undefeated with their victory over Dartmouth, 85-67. On Mar. 14, the Ivy League champions are ranked a heartbreaking 16th in the NCAA East Regional and are defeated by top seed North Carolina...
Born in 1926, Adams was an only child. Her father was a Spanish professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the family was very involved in the academic community...
...recent study of 90,000 law-school applicants by Linda Wightman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro illustrates both the challenge of recruiting minorities and the payoff. She found that of the 3,485 blacks accepted by law schools in 1991, just 687 would have been admitted only on the basis of board exams and grades. Yet these same minority students had graduation and bar-exam pass rates similar to whites'--and they had an incalculable value to the black community, as both professionals and role models...
...based in Greenville, S.C., used thousands of gallons a month of methylene chloride, a chemical that causes cancer in lab animals, at its Matamoros plant. In 1988 Kemet's consultant found that airborne methylene chloride waste was 30 times as great in Mexico as at its plant in North Carolina. Later, another Kemet study found that the highest readings of the toxic chemical were found near the high school next door...
...sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends but treats them as fellow human...