Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...J.P.L. controllers to choose a safe spot for Viking 1's lander to touch down. On July 20, lander 1 separated from its orbiting mother ship. Using retrorockets, deploying a parachute and finally firing three descent engines, it bumped gently onto a rock-covered slope on the planet's southern hemisphere. Forty-five days later, the Viking 2 lander plopped down on more rugged terrain far to the north...
...creates what appear to be simple folk songs with minimal instrumentation, yet his melodies are never mellow or folky. More urgent and driving than amny guitar heavy bands, his music is more punk than crunchy. In fact, the Mountain Goats emerged from the lo-fi movement swelling in southern California in the early '90s that set itself on forging simultaneously sloppiness and precision...
Bedford is a torpid southern Indiana stone-quarry hamlet where the politics are dull, racial disputes are rare, and crime is so infrequent that Mayor John Williams boasts that his home has no lock on the front door. But bring up hospital loyalties--an allegiance some Bedford families have solemnly passed down for three generations--and townspeople are likely to get agitated. "You don't get the care you need there," 86-year-old Martha Terrell, a Dunn patient of 50 years' standing, says of the institution she won't patronize. "Whenever anyone new moves to town, I tell them...
...reason for separate congregations is that they make saving souls easier. A doctrine called the "homogeneous unit principle" says churches "grow faster when you have people of a like culture worshipping together," notes Thom Rainer, a dean at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Explains Van Kicklighter, a church-planting strategist: "Our overriding concern is reaching an unreached group of people and planting witnesses among them. Our purpose is not necessarily to be multiethnic." That's also true for many immigrant and African-American ministers. "God doesn't want us to separate out," says Sanon, "but for some reason...
...than @Large (though still, shall we say, preprofitable), Pangea is recently installed in a glamorous office overlooking a lake in downtown Oakland. Bellenson, who says he subscribes to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and listens to National Public Radio, said, "I presume he's a Southern political figure...