Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people pack the Orlando Arena for every game of the Orlando Magic, the two-year-old National Basketball Association team; but residents and civic leaders in Orange and Osceola counties complain that the area lacks a sense of community responsibility. "It's a lot easier to pull for the hometown team than to volunteer at a hospital," says Linda Chapin, chairman of Orange County. Says her counterpart in Osceola, Jim Swan: "It's hard to govern when you have no clear idea what kind of place a place wants...
Beyond wealth without risk, what else should a 21st century American mecca offer its pilgrims? How about eternal life? Social worker Jerry Schall, 46, claims to have discovered the Fountain of Youth near Orlando, and five years ago rented billboard space in his hometown of Philadelphia to advertise its existence. (Schall claims that the miraculous rill is somewhere in the woods, a 35-minute drive from Disney World.) He says he was "disillusioned" with the apathetic response he received, but who needs the Fountain of Youth when Disney's own powers of rejuvenation are well known? "The place makes...
...think that's a wonderful tradition of public service," says Forsgard, who has run community service projects herself in the past. Those include a kite-making workshop at a public library in her hometown...
Saddam has already embarked on the campaign trail. Earlier this month, he visited three provincial capitals, Ba'quba, Ramadi and Mosul, as well as his hometown of Tikrit. At each stop, thousands of followers, mostly young people, cheered him, chanting, "Bush, Bush, listen well, we all love Saddam Hussein!" In Mosul the Iraqi President ostentatiously drew a pistol from his holster and fired several shots over the heads of the crowd. The throng went wild, and the footage was shown over and over on Iraqi television. "Tomorrow, if they were given new instructions, they would chant different slogans," says...
...last caffeine-filled all-nighters and squeak through a few final exams. Or, if you're graduating, time to gather frantically a few precious addresses of those fellow sufferers you've spent the most time with. Maybe you'll get in touch with them when you cruise through their hometown...