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Word: africas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days, if you looked at someone and they looked like they were from Africa, there was the all-encompassing term 'black.' That is no more," Evans says...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Studies | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

While Mugabe's government came to power promising change and even now is considered one of the most advanced in Africa, it has attracted criticism from other governments for corruption and heavy-handed governance...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Fellow Faces Trial In Africa | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...hard to know how much you're own effort contributes," said Claudia A. McElroy, Africa program coordinator for the journalists' committee. "We're cautiously optimistic that that court hearing will be dropped...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Fellow Faces Trial In Africa | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...facto leader of what Moi calls Kenya's recovery strategy is Leakey's biggest challenge yet. Kenya was once one of the most successful developing countries in Africa. But its economy and image have deteriorated over the past decade--not in an explosion of violence or at the hands of a military regime, as in other parts of the continent, but through the pathetic slow drip of corruption and inefficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's New Fireman | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...become as powerful as an Andrew or a Floyd, it must encounter several very specific environmental factors, including water temperatures above 80 degrees and a calm upper atmosphere. An Atlantic storm begins its life when high cumulus clouds gather over warm waters, often off the west coast of Africa. These clouds become a circular mass of thunderstorms, shaped by the curvature of the earth's atmosphere. These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water to the top of the storm. This warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Global Warming Behind the Current Swirl of Hurricanes? | 9/14/1999 | See Source »

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