Word: colorado
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Lamm, the former Colorado governor who challenged H. Ross Perot this summer for the Reform Party nomination, spoke with humor on entitlements, slow economic growth, health care, the trade and budget deficits and Social Security, which he called an "actuarial nightmare." He also focused on his pet issues of "generational inequity" and "generational malpractice...
...transcript will keep him out of Harvard. But the situation could get even worse. A constitutional amendment has been drafted guaranteeing that parents' rights to direct the education of their children "shall not be infringed." The amendment, being pushed by the Christian right, is on the November ballot in Colorado, and has been proposed in 28 other states. If it ever becomes law, we will have school by daily plebiscite with creationists and evolutionists, liberals and conservatives, condom givers and abstinence advocates, prayer sayers and secularists playing out their agendas. If parents aren't willing to go in the other...
...getting involved in gangs. Maybe with this tragic event, young people will see for themselves that even martyrs such as "2pac" are not immortal. If hate and rivalry are what the "California Love" of his recording is all about, I don't want any part of it. DEREK GALLARDO Colorado Springs, Colorado...
GABRIEL LANE, 20; GREELEY, COLORADO; high school senior...
DIED. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, of injuries resulting from a car crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A brilliant and legendarily eccentric electronics engineer who put together an automatic telegraph machine when he was 10 years old, Cray built in the 1960s what many consider the world's first supercomputers. Not all his work was as constructive: for many years he built a new sailboat every winter and burned it, inexplicably, every fall...