Word: southwester
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...parents, Sadie and Alvin Sr., were notnative New Yorkers. In fact, they met in eighthgrade in the 22,000-person town of Petersburg,Va., 22 miles southwest of Richmond...
...what happened to Ramesses' dozens of daughters? Were they buried in a similar mausoleum, perhaps in the Valley of the Queens, a few miles to the southwest? That is where many pharaohs' wives and princesses and some princes are buried. "Why not?" asks the Oriental Institute Museum's Teeter. "The daughters of pharaohs were certainly important. The Valley of the Queens hasn't been as thoroughly explored as the Valley of the Kings, so there could be a lot of surprises there...
...some piece of the puzzle of the Oklahoma tragedy was cut from this bleak patch of the Southwest, it seems fitting. But it is a piece that speaks to despair more than to anger, to the nihilism and the anonymity of America's underbelly...
...Cajuns are descendants of the Acadians, a band of French colonists who founded "l'Acadie" in 1624 in what is now Nova Scotia. Expelled by the British in 1755 -- an event still remembered locally as the "Grand Darangement" -- they eventually wound up in the isolated, rural southwest of Louisiana. There, sharing space with African Americans, many descended from French-speaking Creole "free men of color," they evolved their unique musical language...
...deep in a cave. Dana Bradley, 20, lay in the darkness of the basement under a pile of cement girders, bleeding and her body dangerously cooling in a foot of water. But when a team of four fire fighters found her, they faced one harsh decision after another. That southwest corner of the building was highly unstable; there were girders smashed everywhere, with hundreds of tons of the remaining building above them. Bradley was lodged in a space so small that the doctors could scarcely reach her. "Two of us tried to get an IV into her, but we couldn...