Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before this week, baseball was chugging along at a rapid pace. Today, baseball is silent, along with the rest of the nation. For the first time since anyone could remember, no one cared about baseball...
...talk aesthetics," he prodded. "Beauty counts for nothing in that study. But I, for one, would prefer a stroll along the Charles with a paramour to a furtive dash through New Haven alleyways or an asthmatic traipse through Jersey smog...
...COVER: Along the ivory trail from poachers in Africa to dealers in Asia, greed and deceit put the elephant in peril...
Delegates from 100 nations will meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week to decide whether to declare the giant of beasts an endangered species. Such an action could trigger a global ban on ivory trading, but some countries may not go along, and smuggling will no doubt continue. Only a sharp drop in demand for gleaming white tusks can save the elephant. See ENVIRONMENT...
...eleven-car train starts in Montreal and hooks up in Sudbury with another train from Toronto before setting out toward the west, along a 2,800-mile route. It plows across the vast prairies of Saskatchewan, where wheat and canola fields stretch from horizon to horizon. Then it is on to the Rockies, along ledges that would make an aerialist faint. It presses near the old Calamity Curve, through the Jaws of Death Gorge and, lest passengers have failed to get the message, into the Devil's Caldron...