Word: ohio
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Teachers in districts where the religious right has gained a strong voice complain that politicking and endless debates over curriculum impede their work. In Xenia, Ohio, two religious conservatives on the five-member school board tie up meetings with arguments against self-esteem programs (Weakens respect for parents!) and sex education (Undermines abstinence!). "The time spent on this is taking away from academics," says board president Wanda Kress. "Teachers are constantly afraid they'll do something offensive...
...Texas. With $2 billion already spent and the project 20% complete, the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument, a particle accelerator designed to probe the innermost secrets of the universe, was canceled last week by a 282-to-143 vote in the House of Representatives. Said Ohio Democrat Eric Fingerhut: "This was a project that we couldn't afford. We need to take every opportunity to reduce our deficit...
...even though nearly everyone at the White House, including Clinton, opposes the idea as ineffective and thus a waste of money. And the White House is willing to redress problems that have nothing to do / with Mexican imports: it is trying to earn a few votes in Pennsylvania and Ohio by promising to "adjust" steel imports with Japan...
Until this year, Pollard & Co. hadn't played a live show since 1987 (they've now played three); all of their previous records have been on labels that are to the big, well-known independents (Matador, Sub Pop) about as GBV's hometown, Dayton, Ohio is to New York City. With Vampire they've moved up to the level of Cleveland. (Literally: Scat Records is based there.) This is the first GBV release there's a good chance of finding in a non-exceptional record store: the CD version includes twice as much music, since the last half...
...parents were onetime Alabama sharecroppers who moved north to Lorain, Ohio, a small steel-mill town just west of Cleveland, in search of a better life. The second of four children, Chloe Anthony Wofford was born in 1931, in the teeth of the Great Depression. Her father took whatever jobs he could find and nurtured, as his daughter once recalled, an angry disbelief in "every word and every gesture of every white man on earth." He apparently had reason. As the daughter grew older, she heard family tales about an incident that occurred when she was only...