Word: carolina
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...friends chose the scenic route, biking up the Gold Coast through Vero Beach, off the coast of Cape Hatters in North Carolina and up the Del Mar pennisulla off the coast of Delaware. "We kind of avoided the major cities," Coleman said...
Diehl has many tales. Last year a C-130 cargo plane collided with an F-16 fighter jet over Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, killing 24 people. The so-called composite-wing policy that grouped perhaps incompatible planes at the same base was not evaluated by investigators. It was the idea of General Merrill McPeak, the service's top officer before he retired last fall. "Other investigators felt this issue was at the crux of the accident, but dared not bring it up again," Diehl writes. Instead an air-traffic controller was blamed. The pilots involved have resumed...
Indictment is just the latest TV project to offer a revisionist view of the '80s child-abuse frenzy. Robert F. Kelly Jr., former co-owner of the Little Rascals Day Care Center in Edenton, North Carolina, and Dawn Wilson, the center's cook, were granted new trials this month in a sex-abuse case that had landed them lifelong prison sentences. In arguing for the new trial, Kelly's attorney submitted a 1993 Frontline documentary (one of two pbs series aired on the case), which skeptically examined the children's fantastic claims of abuse and uncovered potential juror misconduct...
Prosecutors in North Carolina continue to argue that the guilty verdicts were justified and contend that the Frontline reports were biased. "Generally, movies and docudramas about high-profile cases tend to be prodefense because the defense is where the producers are able to gather most of their information," notes North Carolina attorney general Mike Easley, who will ask the state supreme court to affirm the Little Rascals convictions. "Defense attorneys are much more facile in winning the public-relations aspects of these visible cases...
...cannot afford an $80-to-$100 calculator. And the effort required to learn how to use it, some teachers believe, far outweighs the benefits. "The students grow dependent on a machine to do all the work for them," says Joan Harrison, who teaches A.P. math in Durham, North Carolina. "And I'm driven nuts because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others use ones belonging to the school. Barbara Ross, who teaches...