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...Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and the founder of the Washington-based a cappella black female singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock. In the series Reagon frequently relates the development of sacred music to her own experiences: singing in church as a child in southwest Georgia; hearing a blues song for the first time (her reaction: "My God, I've found a piece of myself!"); touring with the Freedom Singers in the 1960s and fighting for civil rights by singing at protest marches and even in jail cells. "I find that when I'm singing," says...
...coach in Pasadena (Calif.) Southwest Little League, the last time when girls play baseball before social pressure forces them into softball, I would always draft girls onto my hardball teams. My co-coach, a young Harvey Mansfield with more common sense, liked to draft girls because he thought they "civilized" the boys. I liked to pick girls because I like to win, and the girls were every bit as skilled, strong and tough as boys...
...steal at exactly $1,000 and ideal for a dorm room is a 20 year-old southwest Persian tribal rug from Chiraz, 5 by 8, pile weaving; or semi-antique Kilims ($995) and scatter-rugs ($895) with natural dyes from Church Street Rugs, 28 Church Street...
Within a few weeks after the first cases appeared, scientists suspected that the culprit was a variety of hantavirus, closely related to pathogens already known to exist in Europe and Asia. Researchers then established that the virus was carried by wild deer mice, and residents of the Southwest and West began taking special precautions to minimize their contact with the rodents. Finally, just over a week ago, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Army Medical Research Institute at Fort Detrick, Maryland, reported that both institutions had independently isolated the virus and grown it under laboratory...
Further investigation uncovered two more cases, and after local health authorities ruled out severe flu and pneumonic plague -- the latter is endemic to the Southwest, and a few cases show up every year -- they turned to the CDC for help. Recalls Dr. C.J. Peters, chief of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch: "It didn't fit the pattern of anything we'd seen, and all we could figure is that it was something brand...