Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Levitican University, a Fundamentalist Christian college in Southern California, something remarkable is going on. Professor Guy Albrick, head of the Department of Molecular Neurology, has devised a radically new technique to help male students who are troubled by homosexual urges...
...former president said there is a growing conflict between nations with disparate economic conditions--primarily a division between the northern and southern hemispheres...
...Mike freely talks about his mother, who never misses a game, he has little to say about his father and even refuses to take his calls or answer his letters. It didn't help matters when Henry became the U.S.C. coach in the middle of last season--Arizona and Southern Cal are Pac 10 rivals. In January, on the eve of Arizona's visit to U.S.C., Mike told the Orange County Register, "You know, my mom isn't a famous person like my dad. But I wish when they say, 'Mike Bibby, son of Henry Bibby,' and all that stuff...
...California at San Diego has studied emperor penguins, beguiling flightless birds that are dependent on Antarctic sea ice. The penguins need 255 days of sea ice in order to complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark, probably dooming the juveniles to an early death...
DIED. NANCY WOODHULL, 52, journalistic champion of women; of cancer; in Pittsford, New York. Beginning as a newspaper reporter, she rose through the ranks to become president of Gannett News Service, a founding editor of USA Today and editor in chief of Time Warner's Southern Progress Corp., where she supervised five magazines. While shattering the glass ceiling herself, she never stopped being a forceful advocate of equality for women and minorities in the media...