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...Atlanta is a thriving business and cultural powerhouse. When an ebullient young lawyer named Maynard Jackson became the first black mayor in 1974, the most prominent feature of the skyline was the Polaris, a flying saucer-like revolving restaurant atop the 24-floor Hyatt Regency Hotel. Today that landmark can scarcely be seen amid the towering hotels and office towers that have been built since Jackson broke the color line at city hall...
...structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment -- or more precisely, an infinitesimal 300,000 years after the moment -- that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: NASA'S Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- COBE -- had discovered landmark evidence that the universe did in fact begin with the primeval explosion that has become known as the Big Bang...
...counts of sexually abusing a dozen children at his preschool in this remote town perched on the edge of Albemarle Sound.The verdict brought to an end the longest (eight months) and most expensive (estimated cost: $1.2 million) trial in North Carolina history. Often compared with California's landmark McMartin Pre-School case, whose defendants were ultimately acquitted, the trial aroused heated passions in the bucolic community of Edenton, where many residents were torn between outrage over the alleged crimes and fears that they had unleashed a witch hunt...
...some Californians, Proposition 13, a landmark tax-cutting initiative, destroyed the perception that Brown was a man of his word. Brown opposed the measure vigorously, but when it passed overwhelmingly in June 1978, the governor did an about-face...
That is why I had such great hopes for Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the new home of the American League's Baltimore Orioles and the most ballyhooed new landmark since the Colossus at Rhodes...