Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gray Kenyan dusk, an elephant soundlessly advances to the edge of a water hole, its trunk raised high to catch the first scent of danger. Satisfied that the way is clear, it signals and is joined by a second elephant. In ritual greeting the two behemoths entwine their trunks, flap their enormous ears and clack tusk against tusk, sending the cold crack of ivory across the Ngulia Hills. That same sound is heard 10,000 miles away in Hong Kong and Tokyo, where ivory traders stack tusk upon tusk -- more than 800 tons, scrubbed clean of blood and connective tissue...
...series of studies coordinated by Dr. Charles Moertel of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., researchers tested a combination of two drugs: 5- fluorouracil, a proven anticancer agent, and levamisole, a medication commonly used by veterinarians to clear worms from the intestines of animals. Included in the studies were some 1,700 cancer patients, most of whom had been operated on for Dukes' C colon cancer. In this stage of the cancer, the tumor has penetrated the bowel wall but has not spread to the rest of the body. The results of the first study, which appeared in this month...
...Israelis protested strongly that this implied participation by the P.L.O. Although any Palestinian would be risking his life if he dared serve on such a delegation without at least tacit P.L.O. approval, Israel continues to insist that it will never agree to contacts with "terrorist organizations." "It is now clear to us that this is to be a Palestinian delegation appointed by the P.L.O.," said Yossi Ben-Aharon, director of the Prime Minister's office...
...space launches. The space agency admits that there have been three accidents involving RTG- powered vehicles. The most significant was in 1964, when a satellite launched by the Air Force burned up over the Pacific, tripling the amount of radioactive plutonium 238 in the environment. It is not clear what health effects that might have had. The generators were then redesigned, and in two subsequent accidents in which spacecraft broke apart, no radioactivity is known to have escaped...
...restrictions do not address the root causes of widespread popular disaffection in East Germany. "It's like taking an aspirin for a toothache," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "It may relieve the pain, but it won't fix the problem." As the rioting in Dresden made only too clear, the refugees who had the good luck to act are hardly the only ones who want out. In Leipzig, 10,000 East Germans marched through the streets demanding change and shouting the name of the man who inspires them: "Gorbi! Gorbi...