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...visitors who have been flooding Savannah, Georgia, for the past year are not like ordinary tourists. They drive out to Bonaventure Cemetery and sometimes bring home clumps of dirt. They drop by Club One to see a lip-synching, black drag queen named Lady Chablis. They head to Hannah's East to hear Emma Kelly, dubbed the "lady of 6,000 songs." They ask residents how they can track down the voodoo priestess Minerva and want directions to Mercer House, the elegant home on Monterey Square where a fatal shooting occurred. And almost invariably, they walk around with copies...
...fact this meant using American citizens as the lab animals. The ground-level explosions were followed by above-ground blasts that continued until the early 1960s. Natural Resources Defense Council historian Stan Norris told TIME Daily that the ground-level nuclear tests "kicked up a huge amount of dirt." Norris says although "downwind" Utah and Nevada residents blame the tests for high cancer rates in their towns, the government disagrees. Despite years of legal wrangling, he notes, the dispute remains unresolved...
...bodies of Simpson's ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Fuhrman testified that he came across the second glove near a wall where Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin heard noises on the night of the slayings and that it appeared out of place because it did not have any dirt, twigs or leaves on it. Under cross-examination by defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, Fuhrman said he didn't remember ever meeting Kathleen Bell, the woman who has accused him of making racial slurs...
Downstairs in the Loker Commons, however, thebuilding's historical character wasn't as great aconcern. While the Great Hall already featuredstained glass windows and frescoed ceilings, thearea that will soon be Loker Commons is currentlyequal parts machinery, concrete and dirt...
...executives say Zevin's article wasdoomed from the start by the fact that "it is notinteresting to write in Rolling Stonemagazine how great Let's Go is. He [Zevin] didn'tfind much dirt at all because we areprofessional," Fitzpatrick said...