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NFL Football Preview 1999: NFC East

NFC East Dallas Cowboys - Put away your shovels because the Cowboys aren't dead yet. The Cowboys were humiliated by their 20-7 playoff loss to Arizona last season and would love nothing…

Writing Well: Credit Given Here

Credit Given HereWriting WellIn the End ZoneCredit Given HereStop, Thief!Light at the End of the Tunnel As you weave in expert opinions, facts, examples, and statistics, provide enough information…

Cunningham, Merce

(Encyclopedia) Cunningham, Merce (Mercier Philip Cunningham), 1919–2009, American modern dancer and choreographer, b. Centralia, Wash. Cunningham studied modern dance with Martha Graham and ballet at…

Pittsburgh

(Encyclopedia) PittsburghPittsburghpĭtsˈbərg [key], city (1990 pop. 369,879), seat of Allegheny co., SW Pa., at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, which there form the Ohio…

July 2009 Current Events: World News

U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of July 2009. U.S. Military Taking Back Afghan Valley from Taliban (July 2): In an…

Jensen, Arthur Robert

(Encyclopedia) Jensen, Arthur Robert, 1923-2012, American social scientist and psychologist, b. San Diego, Ca, Univ. of Ca., Berkeley (B.A., 1945),…

Lyme disease

(Encyclopedia) Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis, a nonfatal bacterial infection that causes symptoms ranging from fever and headache to a painful swelling of the joints. The first American case of…

Kafka, Franz

(Encyclopedia) Kafka, FranzKafka, Franzfränts käfˈkä [key], 1883–1924, German-language novelist, b. Prague. Along with Joyce, Kafka is perhaps the most influential of 20th-century writers. From a…

Addams, Jane

(Encyclopedia) Addams, Jane, 1860–1935, American social worker, b. Cedarville, Ill., grad. Rockford College, 1881. In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, she founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the first…