Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Columbia 21, M. FENCING...
...Columbia 22, W. FENCING...
That's the town Hawley thought she was moving to, but in her years here she has caught but one glimpse of the place. It happened, she tells the group, in 1992, when Columbia Pictures came to town to shoot old-time street scenes for the movie version of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. The film crew closed off downtown and spruced up the old buildings, turning the place into a roseate vision of itself--and attracting hundreds of Wilmingtonians to Main Street. "People were mingling, striking up conversations and laughing," says Hawley, "and suddenly they could remember what...
More broadly, according to Columbia University researcher Joyce Hunter, 3% to 10% of U.S. teens now tell pollsters they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or "questioning" their orientation; in the San Francisco Bay Area, the figure is 18%, according to one recent study. While reliable historical statistics don't exist, Hunter says few teens came out when she began examining gay youth in the early '70s. "The change has been enormous," she says. Lonely gay kids can find solace in two Webzines, dozens of online chat rooms and some 500 community support groups, usually run by social workers not affiliated with...
...penetrate any of the "presidential-residential sites" or the many other facilities where they had been denied entry in the past. The debate has homed in on Saddam's "palaces"; there are dozens of them--some vast compounds, according to Bill Clinton, as big as the District of Columbia--and the Iraqis sometimes pin that label on any facility they want to keep closed. In fact, many other areas, including the bases and barracks of the intelligence services and the Republican Guard, are suspected of harboring materials that Iraq promised to give up under the truce agreement...