Word: newfound
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Behind the heritage hoopla is the newfound ease with which family connections can be traced, often with the aid of computers. Millions of federal records can be found in Washington's National Archives and Records Administration and its 13 regional branches. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, contains billions of names, with thousands more added each month by 75 research teams microfilming records all over the world. In 2000, visitors to Ellis Island will have computer access to all passenger lists of ships bringing immigrants to New York Harbor...
...rough decade in the '80s, the man who wrote the Theme from Shaft! has been rediscovered as Chef! ISAAC HAYES has found a whole new group of fans as the voice of the world's smoothest school-canteen worker on the cartoon South Park. But along with that newfound popularity comes attention from those Hayes might not want to encourage. A court in Georgia has ordered that Hayes pay an old debt of nearly $90,000, plus interest. The order was originally obtained in 1989, but the creditor knew Hayes' career was in a slump and didn't pursue...
...sell for drug cash. The gun belonged to his girlfriend's father, who happened to be a deputy sheriff. "How dumb can you get?" Tom asks. After flashing a driver's license photo to show how much thinner he was in his meth days, Tom effuses about his newfound love of Christ. A few minutes later he reaches into his jeans jacket and pulls out a scorched, homemade glass crank pipe...
...mainland's basic policy toward Taiwan remains the same even though its tactics may appear more nimble. We look forward to Beijing's extending its newfound pragmatism in economic areas into the area of Taiwan policy...
Though the cash windfall was nice, both authors downplay the sudden change in their fortunes. Lamb and his wife, a high school teacher, are giving a lot of their newfound wealth away, while Mitchard was relieved merely to be able to pay some bills. Oprah has copies of their new books, but Lamb and Mitchard say they have no expectations that the star will pick them again. And it hardly matters. According to Pamela Dorman, Mitchard's editor, the author already has such an enthusiastic following that Viking has printed 400,000 copies of the new title. "Of course there...