Word: nation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seems that students are staying up later and later in order to keep ahead of the pack. Between classes, work-study, athletics, campus organizations, honors theses, political commitments, public service and answering all the daily pages, e-mails and voice-mail messages, our nation's best and brightest find themselves at 3 a.m. flat out and famished...
...today is also the 23rd Great American Smokeout. Today, all across the nation, the American Cancer Society (ACS) is sponsoring events to encourage smokers to stop smoking, at least for 24 hours, and see how it makes them feel. "Prove to yourself if you can quit for one day, you can quit for a lifetime," say the advertisements. Through a variety of programs, from nicotine patches to counseling, the ACS and its partner within the federal government, a branch of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), are working to make today the first day of a better...
...finished a perfect 7-0 in the Ivy League--a feat accomplished only twice before in Ivy history--to capture the league championship. Along the way, the Crimson finished the season 3-0-1 in contests against top- 25 teams en route to a No. 7 ranking in the nation...
...owned the nation's second lowest goals-against average and led a team that allowed the fewest goals in the country during the regular season. She was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and also was voted as a member of the second-team all-league squad...
...inside and outside the church in which the hearings took place. The Rev. Mel White, a California-based gay-rights activist, imported 100 protesters, who faced off outside the church with a flock led by peripatetic Kansas-based Baptist minister Fred Phelps, who's gaining a reputation as the nation's most vociferous anti-gay crusader. Inside, Creech told a panel of priests that he intentionally violated church law because it was discriminatory...