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...arrested in Texas last June, Henry Lee Lucas looked harmless. "He just seemed like an ordinary person, real polite and real nice," recalls Faye Moore, wife of a Pentecostal preacher in Stoneburg, Texas. "I never knew him to take a drink, and he never used foul language." One humid May morning last year, Moore's husband Reuben, 52, gave Lucas and his companion Freida ("Becky") Powell, Toole's 15-year-old niece, a lift in Montague County, Texas. He offered the couple room and board in exchange for chores around his makeshift church. Thirteen months later, following Lucas...
Moreover, no demographer can really anticipate such pivotal phenomena as, say, an economic renaissance in Ohio or the decision of large numbers of migrants that Florida is too hot or humid or has finally become too crowded. Consider the Census Bureau's conclusion that Washington, D.C., will experience the most severe decline in the U.S., from a population today of 631,000 down to just 376,500 at century's end. No sooner had that radical drop been forecast than other number crunchers disagreed. "It's just not going to happen," says George Grier, a Washington demographer...
...forward and want their name put on it, but that hasn't happened." Reardon cites problems with the filtering system and rotting wood on the windows as areas needing attention. The department also plans to install an insulating blanket over the swimming pool to reduce the building's excessive humidity. "It's so humid that now if you paint anything in there it peels off." Reardon says. Anderson says the department would like to refurbish the entire building, but because of financial restraints, "we're looking at it with a piecemeal approach...
...still, humid air of a capital without much news, reporters sniffed the sweet scent of skulduggery. At first a novelty item, the story grew into a revelation and took on a vitality almost irrespective of its merits...
...that hasn't happened." Reardon cites problems with the filtering system for the 50-year-old building's pool and rotting wood on the windows as areas needing attention. The department also plans to install an insulating blanket over the swimming pool to reduce the building's excessive humidity. "It's so humid that now if you paint anything in there it peals off," Reardon says. Anderson says the department would like to refurbish the entire building, but because of financial restraints, "we're looking at it with a piecemeal approach...