Word: canada
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Those who were able to come to the United States, Canada, and Australia often sailed on tightly packed, disease-ridden "coffin ships," aptly named as a large percentage of their passengers never made it to the shores they sought. Even more who survived the grueling Atlantic crossing felt earth again only to be soon buried within it. The island of Grosse Ile, used as a quarantine site for incoming immigrants to Quebec, today holds the graves of thousands. Those who did survive faced widespread and serious discrimination and hatred...
After conducting extensive research, the Centennial Fellowship honored scholars from around the globe. In addition to the United States, recipients came from France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada...
...been killed by avalanches in North America, and the season still has two months to go. Recently, at Washington's Mount Baker, a skier (who was outside the area's boundary) and a snowboarder were killed by a thunderous 15-ft. wall of snow moving at 200 m.p.h. In Canada the body of Michel Trudeau, son of the former Canadian Prime Minister, lies at the bottom of a lake in British Columbia, carried there by an early-season slide. "The more I know about avalanches, the more scared I am," says Wendy Fisher, two-time Extreme Skiing champion...
...jets strike two Iraqi missile sites; Albright warns Serbs not to attack Kosovo; Indonesia convulsed by religious riots; clashes continue between Ethiopia and Eritrea; Mexico, Canada, something or other...
DAVID WELLS Yank pitches perfect game, wins World Series, sent to Canada. At least they have good beer there...