Word: cynthia
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...most residents of America's ever-expanding big cities, construction and road-work signs are so common they barely get a passing glance. But for Cynthia Good, CEO and founder of Pink magazine, a women's business publication based in Atlanta, the "Men Working" sign on the corner of Marietta Street and Northside Drive just a few blocks from her office couldn't be ignored. In early July, city police found that someone had spray painted two extra letters, W and O, on the sign, and received a report that put Good at the scene with a can of spray...
...Princeton and engaged in a matching-shot game called P-I-G with the 23-year-old star. "Every time I hit," says Gregory, "he got this serious look on his face and matched me. Then he beat me." The package's gold-medal-quality design was done by Cynthia Hoffman and Patricia Hwang...
...materialize overnight. Years of steely determination and self-denial precede the epiphany, and serious dance fans have been following her every step. But the time comes when the image is complete; the name itself takes on magic and exudes the perfume of the theater. With homegrown stars like Cynthia Gregory and Gelsey Kirkland, Americans have long since stopped regarding ballerinas as imports. But this year the headlines have been captured by three young foreigners. A major factor in American Ballet Theatre's most successful season in years is Italy's Alessandra Ferri, 23, an ethereal, hugely gifted dramatic dancer. Leningrad...
...When I was growing up, I thought that everyone had water hauled in," says Cynthia Hairston, a 47-year-old nurse, who was born in Coal Run. "I had no idea that outside my neighborhood, [running water] was even possible." When she discovered that her white neighbors' request for a water hookup had been approved in 1999, she began agitating for equal rights - talking to other black neighbors, attending city council meetings and lobbying government officials. Then one morning, she woke up to find a severed pig's head in her driveway. "It was very upsetting," she says...
...South Florida's per capita use is 50% above the national average, and we've lost half the wetlands that used to recharge our aquifers. So water shortages threaten to limit growth in a way that wetlands regulations or bad headlines never could. "Florida is astonishingly wasteful," says Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. Now the Orlando area is pushing to suck water out of rivers to its north, local utilities are jacking up water rates as much as 35%, and South Florida's water board may cap withdrawals from Everglades aquifers...