Word: beacons
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...hill above the Ohio River, the Rankin house--where a defiant lantern hung each night as a beacon--became a fabled destination that fleeing slaves struggled and sometimes died trying to reach. One of them was a woman who dared to cross the melting ice of the Ohio with her 2-year-old after learning that her master planned to sell the child. Rankin's sons helped her along to the next safe town, whence she eventually made her way to Ontario. Though her name remains unknown, the woman's story, by way of Rankin, reached the ears of Harriet...
FOSSIL AIR: BEACON VALLEY...
Carrying a pickax and shovel, Boston University geologist David Marchant trudges up a snow-dusted side canyon to Beacon Valley. The ground beneath his feet is as intricately patterned as a quilt, and under its rubble-strewn surface lurks a glacier of venerable age. Marchant believes this glacier has been frozen in place for millions of years--and if he's right, the ice in the glacier holds invaluable clues to an earlier epoch of global warming, one that offers a provocative parallel to the warming expected later in this century...
BOSTON—With his hand on a Bible originally used by his father as governor of Michigan, W. Mitt Romney was sworn in Thursday as the 70th governor of Massachusetts, pledging to end a culture of political patronage on Beacon Hill...
...that the tanker Vicky had collided with the submerged wreck of the car transporter Tricolor in the English Channel. A spokesman for the British maritime union NUMAST said the accident "beggared belief." How could the tanker have failed to register the five luminous buoys - one equipped with a radar beacon - surrounding the wreck, the French naval ship guarding it, and French, British and Belgian coastguard transmissions every 30 minutes to all traffic in the vicinity? And how could the captain of the Vicky have missed the wave upon wave of media attention that has broken over the Tricolor...