Word: savannah
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...Savannah, Ga., the cheerleading squad at Johnson High School had to alter some routines when the Savannah-Chatham County school board received complaints that their routines contained lewd gestures. Crystal Tyson, 15, captain of the Johnson squad, says the girls were inspired by music videos and a summer cheering clinic to choreograph their routines, including a certain dance move. "The school board called it a 'pelvic thrust,'" she says...
...Savannah school board will vote on revising an existing policy to include a clause prohibiting "lewd gestures ... and suggestive or vulgar movements" on the part of any school performer. And, board member Lori Brady says, "that includes the chess club...
...deny others liberty, and seek glory in death. They hate us for our virtues, for our success, our free spirit, our benevolence and our innocence. We are dealing with the worst form of envy, the most vicious form of evil--human evil that will not be appeased. ROGER PARIAN Savannah...
...toward a nuclear power station. Soon two F-16 fighter jets arrived on the scene, and Bryant heard a "tremendous, thunderous noise." A little later, choppers were spotted near the Oconee nuclear plant near Clemson, 90 miles away. Then, shortly after midnight, several more were reported flying over the Savannah River Site, a Department of Energy facility that occupies more than 360 sq. mi. along the border of South Carolina and Georgia. Nuclear waste is disposed of there, and weapons are restocked with tritium. Authorities closed down a highway that runs through the base, until the FBI gave...
...member of the world's most famous fossil-hunting family, suspects the change in climate rewarded bipedalism for a different reason. Yes, the dryer climate made for more grassland, but our early ancestors, she argues, spent much of their time not in dense forest or on the savannah but in an environment with some trees, dense shrubbery and a bit of grass. "And if you're moving into more open country with grasslands and bushes and things like this, and eating a lot of fruits and berries coming off low bushes, there is a hell of an advantage...