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...Fighting Sioux. Says president Charles Kupchella: "We have a mission that supports Native Americans." Still, several tribes in the Dakotas have asked the school to drop the name, which Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Charles Murphy has called "a caricature." That term could also apply to the Savages of Southeastern Oklahoma State and the Redmen of Wisconsin's Carthage College. But both schools cite their educational partnerships with Native American groups and say they will make a community decision about the names. --By Jeninne Lee-St. John
...Even the shuttle's flight path home was done for safety, in an eerie sort of way. The path to Florida did not go over the Southeastern United States, where Columbia broke up,but instead was routed via the Gulf of Mexico. The path to Edwards specifically avoided flying over the city of Los Angeles...
Roberts' resume reads so perfectly that it is easy to find the little flakes of destiny littered through his storybook life. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., but raised in Long Beach, Ind., a small town sprung from the sand dunes on the southeastern edge of Lake Michigan, Roberts was in second grade when he won his first case. He had got in a fight with classmate Timmy, which climaxed with his hurling an orange at Timmy's head and splattering a classroom wall instead. Called to account in the principal's office, he argued that the classroom mess was "all Timmy...
...tests for the innovative train, which works something like a horizontal elevator, the cars powered by electromagnetic thrust. Originally, Detroit planners hoped the People Mover would link up with a proposed area-wide light-rail commuter system. Although the rail system never got off the drawing board, the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority decided to take the monorail money anyway...
...terrorist attacks broke out. Two bombs were planted inside a building in central Vienna; only one exploded, however, and it produced no casualties. An American diplomat was shot in the North Yemen town of San'a, though by week's end he seemed likely to survive. In the southeastern French city of Lyons, a British regional director of the American firm Black & Decker was shot twice in the head. And on Saturday, in the same city, a bomb was set off at the local American Express office. While none of the attacks were necessarily mounted by Libyans, or even...