Word: richmond
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...serious disease. This month, however, a study in the Archives of Environmental Health reports that the 16 Virginians who died over the past 34 years of amoebic meningoencephalitis, an infection of the brain and spinal cord, had all apparently caught the disease in three fresh-water lakes near Richmond...
Playwrights in Residence The Virginia State Penitentiary squats smack in the middle of Richmond, a graying wad of concrete plopped down in a dreary commercial neighborhood of decaying buildings. It is a maximum-security prison that houses 1,200 inmates whose offenses run from rape and robbery right up to multiple murders. Improbably, it also houses one of the country's fastest-growing and most enthusiastic drama schools...
...There the prisoners have come up with a desperately passionate full-length play, Later, Jason, written and twice performed inside the penitentiary by inmates. It has also been performed at two prison farms, and this week WCVE-TV, the public-television station in Richmond, aired the TV version using the original prison cast...
...house at St. Helena. Similarly, if Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart had shown up at Gettysburg when he was supposed to, instead of galloping his cavalry hither and yon through the quiet backwoods of Pennsylvania, General Robert E. Lee might have won the Civil War's most crucial battle. Richmond today might be the capital of the Confederate States of America...