Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Masquerade is a series of vignettes illustrating the venality of human nature. Woven throughout is the ever changing persona of the Confidence Man, who assumes various guises on board a ship of fools called, with typical Melvillean irony, the Fidèle, as it journeys down the Mississippi one April Fools' Day. It is a rich, difficult and underrated work, but not one well disposed to operatic adaptation...
...poor, who are not part of the self-help culture, are unlikely to turn up in herpes surveys, and may have more crushing problems to cope with than venereal disease anyway. "Blacks get it, they just aren't obsessed with it," says Tom W. Moore, who works at a Mississippi VD clinic. Some researchers suggest that middle-class hygienic habits cause vulnerability: children who are kept squeaky clean do not get as many cold sores as poor youngsters and thus are generally missing antibodies that protect them against herpes. A study from Paris backs up the theory. It shows that...
...little accurate medical information they had about their own disease." Part of the herpes problem today is that discussion of the phenomenon sometimes seems almost as off-putting as the disease itself. A TIME reporter in the South had to fight the reluctance of conservative Western Union operators in Mississippi to transmit her reports. They said they found the material distasteful. Indeed, the transmission of the files was delayed until the arrival of a younger telex operator, to whom the reporting seemed neither repugnant nor shocking. Art Director Rudy Hoglund noticed the reluctance of some professional models, worried about their...
...bountiful, but not bottomless well soon may be tapped. Texans are talking of pumping water from the Mississippi River, which draws much of its volume out of the states in the Great Lakes watershed. Coal mining interests in Montana have approached Wisconsin for access to Lake Superior. They want to pipe water to the Montana coalfields, where it would be mixed with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre...
...Citations and small fines have replaced arrests and incarceration in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Oregon, which in aggregate have one-third of the U.S. population...