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...After childhood polio paralyzed her from the neck down, North Carolina native Martha Mason, 71, spent more than 60 years living in a 7-ft., 880-lb. iron lung that allowed her to breathe without tubes. Despite her condition, Mason graduated with honors from Wake Forest College (now a university) and published a book...
...Between Monday and the time of his arrest, Copney reportedly left for New York and returned to Cambridge only to leave again, telling an unidentified witness that he was going to leave for South Carolina, where his family lives, Bennett said...
...What kind of health-care reform would Republicans like to see? Four conservative GOP lawmakers - Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Richard Burr of North Carolina, along with Congressmen Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Devin Nunes of California - introduced a proposal on May 19 that looks a lot like the one John McCain advanced during his presidential campaign as well as an idea George W. Bush advanced as President...
...earlier in the season. “The competition was good. My timing was off,” Christensen said. “It was good preparation for Regionals cause a lot of the girls I competed with are the ones I’ll see in North Carolina.” Classmate Brittan Smith also surpassed the NCAA qualifier for the second time this season. Her 6.02-meter leap in the long jump event earned her a share of second place, though a tie-breaker jump relegated her to third. “For [Brittan] to do that...
...Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, fired the first recriminatory salvo, suggesting that the goal of the hearing - conducted by a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee - was to get to the bottom of the Bush Administration's "body of lies." Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina fired right back, suggesting that the hearing would be a "political stunt." (See pictures from inside Guantánamo Bay's detention facilities...