Word: nebraska
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Lucy Shinn could not possibly have stayed much longer in Nebraska where she had raised three children and helped her husband Emil run their 45-acre farm. When Emil died six years ago, her daughter Alice Albers insisted that her mother move in with her and her husband and daughter in Melrose Park, Ill.--even though Lucy was in her mid-80s, near death from pneumonia, unable to walk and unhappy to be leaving her home. "After my father passed away, she just couldn't stay by herself," Alice said. "She was lonely and wasn't eating. My brother...
...Krueger settlement is the largest to date given by a university in a case of alcohol-related injury or death. In 1993, a $475,000 settlement was given in the death of and University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Jeff Knoll, a Phi Gamma Delta pledge who fell from the fraternity house's third floor window after being forced to drink large amounts of alcohol...
...spurred into renewed action by either the Bush candidacy or an overwhelming disgust with Clinton's peccadilloes. I've talked to women, men and even a few teenagers whose opinions on education, literacy and child care jibe fairly close to my own. I went to a TIME lunch with Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel and, I am embarrassed to say, have developed a little crush on his straight-talking ways...
...YORK--I have a problem with traveling. Well, not traveling itself. I love traveling. It's the process that seems to trip me up. I've gone to the wrong airports, had my luggage arrive late, had my luggage sent to other places (specifically Nebraska) and been told that my seat on the plane did not exist. It's the running joke in my family: The Harvard kid can't even make it to the airport...
...after the first disappointing round with Furlow, Kiser-Mostrom flew back to the East Coast one more time at Furlow's behest. She says Furlow told her Roxanne had changed her mind. But in the end, Roxanne's mother supposedly took the child. When Kiser-Mostrom returned home to Nebraska, she noticed an Internet posting that made inquiries about Furlow. She replied and met Charles Elliott, a Philadelphia fraud examiner who had been hired to investigate Furlow by another victimized couple. He had posted the inquiry to find Furlow's other clients. Within weeks, he handed over the names...