Word: virginia
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...Atlantic waters off the coast of Virginia would seem a safe enough sea- lane for an American tanker. But for a moment last week the crew of the 30,000-ton Western Sun must have wondered if they were in the Persian Gulf. Seemingly out of nowhere, an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile blew a 2 1/2- ft. hole in the ship's superstructure. Fortunately, the errant missile was not armed with its customary exploding warhead and missed the ship's cargo of 26,000 bbl. of oil. The 9-ft. projectile was apparently launched during training maneuvers...
Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grass roots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia...
Prophecy became calamitous reality last week at the District of Columbia's Lorton Reformatory. Less than 48 hours after a report by Prison Consultant Kathryn Monaco predicted that "a major disturbance" could occur in the "near future" at the overcrowded prison in northern Virginia, Lorton inmates set fires that damaged at least 15 buildings. In rioting that followed, 27 inmates and six guards were injured...
...National Y in Washington, the steep annual fees ($473 to $807) paid by 80% of clients finance vans that ferry in members of less posh local branches. In Virginia, the three Tidewater Ys teach all the fifth-graders of Chesapeake to swim. They also have aquatics classes for the physically impaired and aerobics classes for the mentally handicapped. The fitness programs help cover the cost of such services...
...would have applied to Harvard early," says Jennifer Brumage '89, "but I didn't know what achievement tests were until May of my junior year." Brumage, from Fairmont, West Virginia, will be the first person ever to attend Harvard from her high school and only one of five from her state in the Class...