Miss America's Rap Songs Spark Civil Rights Protest
Atlantic City reports Miss America contestant Ming Mette Debbye Turner agreed Christian rap songs to public school children after a February complaint by the Anti-Defamation League in New York. Pageant officials faced questions from civil rights director Jeffrey Sinensky who cited a Detroit news article about Turner's appearance. Turner, a Missouri native and veterinary student, has been a born again Christian since age seven.
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Ming Mette Debbye Turner
New York
Leoard Horn
Jeffrey Sinensky
the Teague
News- Turner
Detroit
Miss Turner
Jesus Christ
Everett Koop joins Trevor’s Campaign for the Homeless
ARDMORE PA Former General Everett Koop has joined the Trevor’s Campaign for the Homeless board. The 11 year old Trevor Ferrell started handing out blankets in 1983 and the effort now spans 16 cities with volunteers, goods, and clothing for the homeless.
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Everett Koop
Trevor's
Campaign For the Homeless
Trevor Ferrell
Koop
Children's Hospital Koop
Philadelphia
Survey says people lie to have sex amid AIDS risk
A New England Journal of Medicine letter reports that 34 percent of men and 10 percent of women at California colleges admitted lying to have sex. The researchers advise cautious safe sex and questioning partners about pasts to gauge infection risk.
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Boston
En- Journal of Medicine
California
Susan D. Cochran
California State University In
Northridge
Vickie M. Mays
University of California
Los Angeles
Journal
Courtroom Fashion Show Highlights Burglary Claim
A Miami trial mixed theater with testimony as two models paraded gowns before jurors to prove value in a suit by Vero Enter Inc against State Farm Fire and Casualty Insurance for 545000. Designer Digna Yero testified values with the priciest dress at 1400 while State Farm challenged the burglary tally of 3131 dresses.
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U.S
William M. Hoeveler
Digna Yero
Humberto Yero
Vero
Jose Rojas
State Farm
David Tharpe
Lincoln Elementary enrolls 12 sets of twins in PAGEDALE
Principal Celestine Knox notes about 350 students with 14 twin pairs at start of fall classes, two families moved since. She recalls a similar claim by other schools after reading about a rival boasting three twin sets, while twins occur in roughly one in 80 births.
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Lincoln Elementary
Celestine Knox
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Knox
Lbrarian
Jane Relse
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