Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needed more strip malls, so those were promptly built. And pretty soon some of the friends and relatives of the settlers moved in, which meant a few more strip malls were required, not to mention houses and more roads. Before long, paradise started to look a lot like Toledo, Ohio. Or Los Angeles. Now many Westerners--led, perhaps peevishly, by the last wave of settlers--are fighting to slow development and stop the influx of new residents...
...something of a miracle that Mother Angelica entered the religious life. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and the product of a broken home, she remembers the sisters who taught her in parochial school as "the meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a traditional, strictly cloistered order of Franciscan nuns with special devotion to the consecrated host which is, Catholics believe, the Body of Christ. Crippled in a work accident, she vowed to establish a convent of her own in the predominantly Protestant South if she regained...
...help others, I see that the crisis at teaching hospitals is more than "a shame'': it's a tragedy. If all the people working for Medicare or an hmo were to be in my position, instead of pursuing "the bottom line,'' they would agree. BONNIE L. RYDER Doylestown, Ohio Via America Online...
...with all the social problems in America that the government hasn't figured out how to solve--gang violence, drugs, welfare, unemployment--the last thing the feds should be doing is snooping in people's living rooms to see what's on their hard drives. MARK HARRIS Cincinnati, Ohio Via America Online...
...BECOME THE QUICKEST WAY TO FAME IN AMERICA'S GUN culture. And one morning in May 1992 it happened to Louis Katona III, a Bucyrus, Ohio, real estate salesman and part-time police officer. He got to tell all about it when the National Rifle Association flew him to its annual meeting in Phoenix last spring--how agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the "jackbooted fascists" of N.R.A. lore, had raided his home and seized his machine-gun collection. At the time, he estimated the guns' value at about $300,000 and kept them locked inside...