Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began when best-selling vampire novelist Anne Rice took out a full-page ad in the New Orleans Times-Picayune going for the neck of a fellow celebrity for opening an "absolutely hideous" restaurant on one of her hometown's most famous avenues...
...WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON Uh-oh, it's Jell-O. This year the gelatin dessert has its 100th birthday, and so in June its hometown of LeRoy, New York, opens an exhibit that will be part of a permanent museum. Trivia fact: an electroencephalogram shows that a human brain and a bowl of quivering lime Jell-O have the same waves...
Myers was a girl at the time he left his hometown of rural Paris, Maine and began attending Exeter in the ninth grade...
...games this weekend. First the versatile big man scored a career-high 25 points in Harvard's loss to Princeton. But big points in a losing effort does not an Ivy Player of the Week make. The next night, in the senior's final game in front of a hometown crowd, he scored 26 points and grabbed nine boards to help the Crimson to an overtime victory over the Quakers. On the weekend, he corraled 14 rebounds and was an amazing 16-of-17 from the free-throw line en route to his 51 points...
Like so many other towns in this part of the Pacific Northwest--including Microsoft's hometown, Redmond--Orting was built in the shadow of Mount Rainier, and Mount Rainier has a nasty little secret. Beneath the 14,410-ft. mountain's sugary caps and forested flanks lies a mammoth, smoldering pot of magma. Summoned up from the earth's subterranean ovens perhaps 40 miles below, the molten rock simmers under the mountain at up to 3600[degrees]F. As the magma cooks the rocky innards of Mount Rainier, it slowly helps turn them into unstable clay. At the same time...