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It was not until the DNA study was released in Nature in 1998 that the tide began to turn among historians. Although the article was misleadingly titled--the headline read JEFFERSON FATHERED SLAVE'S LAST CHILD, when in fact the study concluded solely that a Jefferson male had fathered that...
The strategies multiplied, and traders were rewarded for coming up with new ones. "You always wanted to stay one step ahead of everyone else," says Stan Cocke, who worked as a power trader pulling 12-hr. shifts in Enron's Portland, Ore., office in 2000 and 2001. "Folks were quick...
Located in 434-sq.-mi. Cocke County, Newport is a short drive from two national forests with recreation areas for camping and picnicking. Throughout the county, which has a population of only 31,500, outdoor lovers can meditate on the beauty of forest, mountain peaks and clean rushing streams, or...
Since then, across the state line, the pollution has provoked indignation that sometimes seems as rank as the river itself. On the Tennessee side, people complain that the river's repugnant color and stench contribute to Cocke County's prolonged economic doldrums by discouraging tourists and development. With an unemployment...
The compromise did not take into account a new, more solemn controversy. Last year a local physician noticed an unusually high number of cancer-related deaths in the tiny riverside hamlet of Hartford (pop. 300), whose people have always been accustomed to eating fish from the Pigeon River. In May...