Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FACE WAS FAMILIAR. VIRGINIA SKEENS, A resident of a rural section of Wayne County, Michigan, watched as a man she had seen on the evening news unloaded his paraphernalia at the home of her neighbor Jack Miller, 53, a tree trimmer who suffered from terminal bone cancer. "I knew," she later told reporters, "somebody was going...
...setting is conventional small-town America, but his scenes are as eerie as the realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
CONSIDER FOR A MOMENT THE FInancial circumstances of an up-and-coming colleague or neighbor. Owns a nice house? Drives a new car? Dines out a lot? Appears calm even when discussing college tuition or the latest property-tax hike? Now take a good guess at his or her income. If it doesn't add up to the outgo, it's likely that the shortfall is being covered by one of the most important -- but little discussed -- determinants of baby-boomer wealth in the 1990s: family inheritance...
...himself in wild places where privilege has no meaning. At 65 he's already spent a decade wrestling with Mister Watson, the fierce and accursed and untamable killer who was, by all accounts, "a good husband and a loving father, an expert and dedicated farmer, successful businessman and good neighbor...
Seven weeks later, Dodd found a four-year-old boy playing alone in an elementary school playground. He coaxed Lee Iseli home with him to play some games. "When we got there, I told him he had to be real quiet because my neighbor lady didn't like kids," Dodd said. He then stripped off Lee Iseli's clothes, tied the boy to the bed and began taking Polaroid pictures as he molested the child. He later mounted the photos in a 4-in.-by-6-in. pink photo album labeled FAMILY MEMORIES...