Word: carolina
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...North Carolina has instituted a flexible program called Smart Start. Under it, parents, teachers, doctors and nurses, child-care providers, ministers and businesspeople form partnerships at the county level that set goals for the education and health care of children under six. These partnerships then administer private and public funds as they see fit. In one county, for example, administrators chose to give subsidies to new parents so that mothers could stay home from work during a baby's first year. More than half of North Carolina's 100 counties are participating in the program, at a cost...
...member of the New Hampshire House of representatives and candidate for U.S. Congress; Richard L. Berke, national political correspondent at The New York Times; Gaston Casperton, former governor of West Virginia; Jill Hanson, national political director of Dole-Kemp '96; Robert C. Hayes, former majority whip of the North Carolina House of Representatives; and Lisa McCormack, publications and online communications director for the Republican National Committee...
Last week Mentavlos and Messer, who have become friends, were busy settling in at their new school, the University of South Carolina at Columbia. It may take a little longer, though, before their faith in human nature is restored. "Hopefully," says Kulp, "they can find a place that finds it at least abnormal that students are being set on fire...
Even Virginia McCaskey, daughter of Chicago Bears patriarch George Halas, seemed tickled to hand the Halas Trophy over to the Packers after their 30-13 defeat of the Carolina Panthers in the National Football Conference title game. Defensive end Reggie White, the proclaimed Minister of Defense, who turns every podium into a pulpit, said to the congregation, "Green Bay, I hope you're proud of us, because we are proud of you." Quarterback Brett Favre, who has been through a little too much for his 27 years, reminded the flock of a promise he had made. "I remember telling...
These Wall Street workers create and produce nothing. Instead of calling them "bulls," wouldn't it be more accurate to refer to them as "steers"? LARRY PETREA Greensboro, North Carolina...