Word: minnesota
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After 68 nominations and nine ballots, the 1,045 convention delegates elected as the ELCA's first national leader Bishop Herbert W. Chilstrom, 55, who heads the Minnesota district of the Lutheran Church in America, one of the merging denominations; his wife Corinne is a pastor in another, the American Lutheran Church. Chilstrom, who underwent cancer surgery in 1985, says that he intends "to spend a lot of time moving around the country to promote a sense of oneness...
...database that will enable American scientists to keep up to date on fast-breaking superconductor research results, and will co-sponsor a White House conference on superconductivity this summer. "It's a monumental subject," says Energy Secretary John Herrington. "It ranks up there with the laser." In the Senate, Minnesota Republican David Durenberger has co-sponsored a bill calling on the President to form a national commission to coordinate superconductivity research and development. Says Durenberger: "We cannot stand idly by while Japan targets another industry for industrial supremacy." Last week the National Science Foundation announced $1.6 million in grants...
...example, the Minnesota Twins are wearing pinstripes in the Metrodome for the first time ever. At least, the Twins management had gotten rid of the confusing "T.C." lettering on the cap. Who outside of Minnesota thinks of Minneapolis and St. Paul as the Twin Cities...
Senator Dave Durenberger, the Minnesota Republican, has distinguished himself of late by his willingness to speak the truth--and to do so loudly and often--about the Jonathon Jay Pollard spy case and what he believes to be America's provocation of the affair. Now he faces an inquiry by the Senate Ethics Committee and the wrath of Republican leaders...
...ORLEANS IS SINKING AT THE rate of one inch every year. The city is built over hundreds of feet of soft black mud, deposited there, over thousands of years, by the Mississippi. The mud comes from the Midwest, all the way uup to Minnesota, along with the tourist hordes who contribute their dollars and their considerable collective weight to the city's inexorable descent towards Australia. When we were there, mind you, most of the buildings were still very much visible. The locals, for their part, seemed unconcerned about the dreadful fate awaiting them in just a few brief moments...