Word: southern
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...This was the third fatal shooting rampage in a school in the southern U.S. within the past five months. In December, a 14-year-old youth opened fire on a student prayer circle in a hallway at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., killing three students; two months earlier in Pearl, Miss., a 16-year-old was accused of killing his mother, then going to school and shooting nine students, killing two of them...
...This was the third fatal shooting rampage in a school in the southern U.S. within the past five months. In December, a 14-year-old youth opened fire on a student prayer circle in a hallway at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., killing three students; two months earlier in Pearl, Miss., a 16-year-old was accused of killing his mother, then going to school and shooting nine students, killing two of them...
...misery in California could extend all the way to fall. While the rest of the U.S., east of the Rockies, is sneezing on ragweed from mid-August to the first frost, Southern Californians are expected to suffer from a surfeit of sagebrush and Russian thistle. This year, says Berger, "it's only going to get worse. These are the kinds of plants that thrive in disturbed soil, as in mudslides, and we've certainly had a lot of those lately...
...mild winter, trees across much of the U.S.--including maple, alder, cottonwood and oak--are budding two to three weeks early, filling the air with their irritating pollen. Add torrential rains, which have produced bumper crops of wildflowers and grasses in the Southeast, along the Gulf Coast and in Southern California, and you have the makings of what some experts predict will be the worst allergy season in 20 years...
...movie is all about the aging of a southern belle, a shrinking violet turned black widow at the threat of replacement. The revenge of Scarlett, with the necessary homage to Freud. The film even goes out of its way to give an example of a foil to Jessica Lange's character, Martha. The good belle, played to perfection by Schaech's grandmother (played by Nina Foch) gives a wonderfully spirited performance. She delivers the best one-liners and has the venom befitting a woman on the side of the good and the righteous, the legitimate...