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NFL Football Preview 2000

  NFL Preview 2000Division front-runners and also-runs   by Mike Morrison   THE PREVIEW AFC East AFC Central AFC West NFC East NFC Central NFC West Editors' Picks READY OR…

Year in Review 1998

The Year in Review 1998 Goes Pop The Year In Musicby Melinda Newman From Private to ProphetThe Year in Moviesby Peter Keough  News of the WorldThe Year in Reviewby Borgna Brunner News…

Henson, Jim

(Encyclopedia) Henson, Jim (James Maury Henson), 1936–90, American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets, b. Greenville, Miss., grad. Univ. of Maryland (A.B., 1960). In 1954 he got his first job as a…

Newport News

(Encyclopedia) Newport News, independent city (1990 pop. 170,045), SE Va., on the Virginia peninsula, at the mouth of the James River, off Hampton Roads, near Norfolk; inc. 1896. It is a port for…

Parsons, Lucy

(Encyclopedia) Parsons, Lucy, 1851–1942, American anarchist and labor activist. Although she claimed publicly to have been born of Mexican and Native American descent as Lucia Gonzalez, she was…

Titus , Roman emperor

(Encyclopedia) Titus (Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus)Titustīˈtəs [key], a.d. 39–a.d. 81, Roman emperor (a.d. 79–a.d. 81). Son of Emperor Vespasian, Titus was closely associated with his father in…