Word: charlestoning
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...Desert Storm troops touch down on American soil to a triumphal welcome of balloons and bands, spouses and children. "As far as I'm concerned, he is a hero," says Bonnie Cutts, 22, of her husband David, also 22, a naval engine mechanic who is expected to return to Charleston, S.C., in the next few weeks. "He'll be a hero for the rest of his life...
...spring break, Lauderdale says, "we're all going to go to Charleston, South Carolina." Lauderdale says they chose the location because it was "a low-budget, cost-free hideaway vacation wonderland...
...could suffer harm from their mothers' prenatal abuse of illegal drugs, district attorneys are tempted by what looks like the quick fix of pregnancy prosecution. "You have the right to an abortion. You have the right to have a baby," says Charles Molony Condon, prosecutor for the Charleston, N.C., area. "You don't have the right to have a baby deformed by cocaine." Courts have given a mostly skeptical reception to the attempt to apply existing drug laws in such a novel fashion, but eight states and Congress are considering legislation that would explicitly criminalize drug use and alcohol abuse...
...eyewitness accounts read like the tall tales of Baron Munchhausen. The ground rippled with waves as though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...
...area around the New Madrid fault is one of several known earthquake zones east of the Rockies. In 1755 Boston experienced a severe jolt, as did Charleston in 1886. Sooner or later a major quake is going to hit these areas again. And unlike the Western U.S., where hot rock close to the surface provides a squishy, shock-absorbing cushion, the middle of the continental plate is cold, hard and thick. Like their precursors in the past century, the next large quakes to strike in the Midwest or East are likely to resonate far and wide, like giant hammers hitting...