Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is no trace of Silverman. But knowing the Kimeses' record, police fear the worst. They have used bloodhounds in Silverman's town house and nearby Central Park to try to sniff out her trail. And they are pursuing leads that she may have been killed and dumped in the grassy medians along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway, where the Kimeses are believed to have driven the afternoon Silverman vanished...
...needed more space and moved into a 12,000-sq.-ft. site in Sunnyvale, where they went public. "We thought, 'This is great. We'll never fill this place up,'" recalls Yang. Wrong. Last year, after moving into a 33,000-sq.-ft. floor of a Santa Clara industrial park, they spread onto two additional floors in a neighboring building for a total of nearly...
...trooped around to all the Boston sights term-time Harvard students never get a chance to see: the Science Museum and IMAX ("Everest" was good, but not that good), the Pops, Canobie Lake Park and the beach, 14-year-olds in tow. The whole experience left me wondering how much simpler and perhaps equally productive it would be if undergraduates, instead of producing endless papers, performances and projects, all got together and played a good game of blob-tag for half an hour...
...waning, good-ole-boy era in North Carolina politics. As usual, and for good reason, the Edwards-Faircloth contest is being cast as a battle between rural conservatives and a new North Carolina, the one centered on Charlotte, the state's thriving financial center, and booming Research Triangle Park, a high-tech enclave that encompasses Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill...
...influx of better-educated, more suburban voters to the new North Carolina has created a political paradox. The state's electorate is becoming more Republican yet less conservative. New voters in Charlotte and Research Triangle Park tend to register Republican but still prefer fiscally responsible pragmatists--even if they sometimes happen to be Democrats--over firebrand ideologues. Faircloth, a successful hog farmer and former Democrat, scores better in the rural east, which is dominated by socially conservative white Democrats who frequently cross party lines to vote for Helms and other G.O.P. culture warriors. Black voters overwhelmingly support Democrats. The result...