Word: indianas
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Senator Dan Coats, an Indiana Republican, could not disagree more. Originator of the "charity tax credit" endorsed by Bob Dole last week, Coats believes "federal programs have almost become an excuse for people not to become personally involved." A tax credit that allows people to support local social initiatives, he contends, would keep both donor and recipient accountable. "If you want to know that your money is really going to make a difference," he asks, "would you rather give $1,000 to Habitat for Humanity or to HUD?" Yet one study that Catholic Charities cited in Senate testimony earlier this...
...victims of catastrophes access to the world's most advanced medicines and, in the case of Rwanda, would have resulted in the loss of countless lives that were in the end saved by the timely use of our antibiotic. JOHN S. NORTH Director, International Relations Eli Lilly & Co. Indianapolis, Indiana...
...Boorda was in distress, no one seemed to know. He was a career Navy man, a native of South Bend, Indiana, who enlisted at 17 (lying that he was 18 so he could get in) to escape a troubled childhood and an alcoholic father. He married at 18, and his first child, David, was born with a rare congenital condition that causes a malformation of limbs and organs. (By his fourth birthday, David had had 17 operations.) Boorda served two tours of duty in Vietnam and worked his way up the ranks, commanding surface ships and serving in various Pentagon...
...authors have, of course, done their homework, but neither anywhere near as diligently as, say, Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear); they get C's at best. Despite their authoritative tone, these books are mines of misinformation--and not just in detail. They are to paleoanthropology what Indiana Jones is to archaeology--pure fantasy constructs. And while this may sound like carping on my part, given that these are, after all, works of fiction, it's fair to point out that no scientist likes to see his field of study caricatured--all the more so when the caricaturists have...
DIED. SCOTT BRAYTON, 37, the race-car driver who held the coveted pole position for the Indianapolis 500 this weekend; in a 235-m.p.h. crash during a practice run; in Indianapolis, Indiana...