Word: tulsa
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...Tulsa, OK and Adams House...
Anderson himself seems to have inherited a remarkable collection of genes. "I was rather a weird little boy," he admits. A child prodigy in Tulsa, he could read, write, add and subtract before kindergarten, and was devouring college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...
...grim tug-of-war between Oklahoma and New York ended last week when a federal judge ordered Thomas Grasso returned to New York to serve a prison term of 20 years to life. Oklahoma had planned to execute Grasso for the 1990 murder of an elderly Tulsa woman, but the judge determined that Grasso, who wanted to be executed, was obligated first to serve his sentence for killing a New York...
...According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, bogus claims account for between 3% and 10% of the nation's $900 billion health bill. A crackdown on fraud could help defray the tab on Clinton's health-care proposal, which he previewed last week in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Broad on themes and thin on details, the plan aims to provide adequate coverage to all Americans, including the 37 million ) currently uninsured, by generating savings within the country's unwieldy health system rather than by imposing new taxes...
...times, however, both the actors and the writer overdo it. The second half of the play, though full of slapdash action, is woefully short on the humor that characterizes the first. When Sonnenschein's script puts trite psychobabble into the mouths of these Tulsa bowling enthusiasts, the effect is unconvincing...