Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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34.To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf...
...Dalloway, Virginia Woolf...
...They might have to cut off my finger," she said. "I can't believe it." She then told us that, earlier in the evening, the car she was driving with a friend to their home in Virginia was forced into a guardrail by some men asking for their phone number. When the car skidded and flipped over, the assailants drove off, leaving the two girls bleeding in the overturned...
...trees, in walls--just about anywhere there's wood and water. And they're on the move: long confined in the continental U.S. mostly to Louisiana and a handful of other coastal areas, Formosan termites are now happily chewing their way through real estate in 14 states, from Virginia to Hawaii, and causing property damage to the tune of about $1 billion a year...
...reported murders or assaults for a given year. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took Lott's figures and analyzed crime rates only in counties with populations above 100,000. Using this yardstick, right-to-carry laws reduced aggravated assaults 67% in Maine--but increased murders 105% in West Virginia. Still other critics note that in concealed-carry states, only about 2% of people have even bothered to get a permit, and they tend to be white males in suburban counties, hardly the population most at risk. After Philadelphia passed a concealed-carry law in 1995, the number of people with...