Word: prisoners
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...save her. They tried to run things as if nothing happened that night. Something had--a little piece of everyone died with the realization of how fragile reality is, how cruel it is to lock human beings up as if they were animals." So wrote a woman in prison in the book The World Split Open...
...said. In 1992 she quit her job at a bank, bought a computer and began collecting website addresses. In 1996 she posted her list on the Internet. Today cyndislist.com has grown to 300 pages with links to 41,700 genealogical sites worldwide--from ships' passenger lists to prison rolls. Howells travels the country, giving speeches. "Everyone wants to know where they came from," she says. "I don't even have time to do my own research anymore...
Federal records are rich troves for census, immigration and military records. Prison logs can be helpful too: "Pray that there were sinners in your family," says Denver Public Library genealogy specialist James Jeffrey. They root around local historical societies and county courthouses for land deeds, wills and probate, and tax rolls. "There's nothing like the smell of musty records, the feel of heavy deed books, the irritated look on the clerk's face when you say you're a genealogist," writes Sharon DeBartolo Carmack in The Genealogy Sourcebook. But the rewards are worth it: Alice Wilkinson, a retired Houston...
...through just one mediocre movie when Life offers an anthology of them? First it's Harlem Nights: Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence meet in a Manhattan speak-easy in 1932. Then it's a period prison picture, as the stars get framed on a murder rap. Climax in the '70s with an all-male Driving Miss Daisy, and keep on meandering into the '90s as the codgers plan one last adventure. Since the characters are in stir most of the time, the film doesn't move; it just ages. Murphy's real co-star here, as in Coming to America...
...have so far done, flying several thousand to places as disparate as Albania, Turkey, Norway and Germany. None will be coming to U.S. terrritory, however. "America's offer of Guantanamo Bay was turned down by refugee groups," says Branegan, "because it was too far away and seemed like a prison...