Word: midwest
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...Street is like an open scar left over from the day in 1967 when a black man was found hanged in jail and the town blew wide open. At the turn of the century, Cairo had vied with Chicago and St. Louis to be the commercial capital of the Midwest, with money pouring in off the barges and trains that converged at this point, where the Ohio and the Mississippi conjoin. But the levees it erected to keep the floods out also hemmed Cairo in. Now the town wants to extract itself from its history by using...
...Nation editor Priscilla Painton, who edited the package, and our aptly named Special Projects editor Barrett Seaman, a former Navy man, who coordinated logistics and kept us in line. Other key crew members included photographer Diana Walker; Nancy Gibbs, who wrote the overview Essay; and our Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill and Southern bureau chief Timothy Roche, who coordinated the task of scouting out stories...
...additional duty? 18. According to Forbes, he's still the world's richest person 20. Los __, where hard drives seem to come and go 22. Gig components 25. One of the five Iroquois nations 28. They've got "no good explanation" for soaring 47-Down prices in the Midwest 29. Party that could bring down Barak's government 32. Some physicians are pressing this org. to seek a moratorium on capital punishment 33. Like the Kalahari 34. Part of R.S.V.P. 35. Plaza Hotel imp 37. Reagan Treasury Secretary 39. Suit materials 43. Adlai's '56 running mate 46. "That...
Coming to Harvard from the Midwest, I assumed I would have to dispel some regional assumptions about my home, especially the name "Prairie Village." When people first began asking where I was from, I would say "Kansas." But that's not really true. The heart of Kansas is really the small central and western towns of which my Johnson County suburb is not a part...
...tradition. Michigan, for instance, has no death penalty, and the state's Republican Governor, John Engler, opposes capital punishment. So does Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. There's been one execution in Ohio since 1976, three in Pennsylvania. "The hang-'em-high culture of Texas doesn't play in the Midwest," says pollster Geoff Garin. And among Roman Catholics, considered a swing group, support for capital punishment is lower than among other groups, at least in part because of the church's aggressive stance against...