Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First we bike around the monuments. It's really flat and easy. Then we cross the state line into Virginia," Chen says...
...that end, the recruiting season for next year has already begun. "We're out already. We're already getting our search letters out--we don't take anything for granted," Fitzsimmons said, who was in Virginia last night talking to high school students and their parents...
...field is just exploding," says Virginia psychologist Everett Worthington, director of the Templeton Foundation Campaign for Forgiveness Research. He should know. His organization, set up by mutual-fund magus Sir John Templeton, has distributed $5 million to scientists studying, among other things, forgiveness among chimpanzees and its physiological effects on the pulse and the sweat glands of humans. A number of psychotherapists are testifying that there is nothing like it for dissipating anger, mending marriages and banishing depression. Just a few years ago, says Robert Enright, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin and a pioneer in the scientific...
DIED. ROY JOHNSON, 93, U.S. Navy admiral who oversaw what the government said was retaliatory U.S. attacks against North Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, an episode that escalated American involvement in Vietnam; in Virginia Beach, Va. Some scholars suggest that President Lyndon Johnson, under fire for not acting aggressively in Vietnam, invented the scenario of unprovoked attacks from North Vietnam to justify deeper U.S. engagement...
...hardly seemed cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary. A Cambridge University don with a flair for making money, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...