Word: lubbock
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...Older people, once considered emotionally frail, are now regarded as exceptionally hardy. Their wealth of experience gives them a broader perspective to draw on. Children, on the other hand, appear to be very fragile. Psychologist Bill Locke of Texas Tech, who studied the aftereffects of a 1970 tornado in Lubbock, found that youngsters, even those as old as ten, regressed into clinging and infantile behavior and that some residual effects were felt in adolescence. Other high-risk groups: single parents, especially women, who usually carry the brunt of their family's emotional needs; and the poor, who are often already...
There is a good bit of manicured savagery in songs like New York Minute and If Dirt Were Dollars ("I was flyin' back from Lubbock/ I saw Jesus on the plane/ . . . or maybe it was Elvis/ You know, they kinda look the same"), and a memorably nasty cameo portrait of Ronald Reagan as a cowboy named Jingo in Little Tin God. That's vintage Henley, delivered with a snarl and a smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin...
There are occasional outbreaks on college campuses, recently including North Carolina State at Raleigh, Siena and C.W. Post colleges in New York, Bradley University in Illinois, Kent State in Ohio and Texas Tech in Lubbock. The probable reason: students received vaccine made before 1980, when a lack of stabilizing ingredients sometimes caused vaccine to lose its potency...
...founded a nonprofit organization called For Spacious Skies and had begun publishing a 32-page guide for teachers, outlining ways in which the sky can stimulate learning. Since then, 17,000 copies have been scooped up, and "sky awareness" has entered curriculums in school districts from Lubbock, Texas, to Wausau...
...third threat is a strain of fire ant called Solenopsis invicta that was discovered this year in northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and Oklahoma. Until now the insects, which first entered the U.S. five decades ago, had been confined to a warm-weather belt between Lubbock, Texas and Beaufort, N.C. Invicta has managed to make a different but equally menacing adaptation. The species has begun nesting in supercolonies, insect megalopolises that contain 10 million to 20 million ants. Says Clifford Lofgren of the USDA'S Agricultural Research Service: "Larger colonies eat crops such as soybeans, potatoes and other vegetables. They have...