Word: ohio
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...Avenue, Parma, Ohio...
...most credible Democrat on the Committee is perhaps Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio. (Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois ranks a close second.) He is the classic, grandfatherly, elder statesman. Showing equal equanimity when asking pointed questions and making cordial remarks, Metzenbaum remains unbesmirched by major scandal. Unfortunately, the Senator has declared this term to be his last...
...OVER THIS WEEKEND. THE FLOOD CREST ON THE MISsissippi, 46 ft. above normal (and 3 ft. above the highest ever recorded before), was scheduled to pass St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday. It should roll by Cairo, Illinois, about 180 miles to the south, by Friday. There, the Ohio joins the Mississippi, which moves into a broader, deeper channel that should be able to carry all the water pouring in from upstream without overflowing the levees, dikes and dams south of Cairo. The people, businesses and farms lining the Father of Waters for the roughly 600 miles south to New Orleans...
Starting last Friday, much of America was in the middle of it as Operation Rescue kicked off a 10-day marathon titled "Cities of Refuge." The campaign featured speeches, rallies and pickets in seven urban areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Cleveland, Ohio; Philadelphia; Dallas-Fort Worth; San Jose, California; Jackson, Mississippi; and the area around Melbourne. Among its goals, explained spokeswoman Wendy Wright, is to ensure that "anyone in the continental United States ((is)) within a day's drive of a rescue." To pro- choicers, the implication is chilling: the transformation of abortion- clinic picketing from an activity for incensed...
...could not love Free Willy, aside from a grouchy movie critic? Perhaps the people at Sea World, the chain of popular marine parks in San Diego; Orlando, Florida; San Antonio, Texas; and Aurora, Ohio. Its curators are steamed at the film's depiction of an animal theme park as an inhumane cesspool. "The movie is not a fair portrayal of whales in captivity," argues Jim Antrim, general curator at Sea World in San Diego. "The trainer seems to be feeding the animal an inferior type of fish and often walks by the animal in an uninterested manner." Sea World execs...