Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AMY BIEHL DID NOT GIVE HER LIFE TO Africa, as she had planned. Instead Africa took her life -- not the democratic continent she had dreamed of and worked to achieve, but the one she thought she saw beyond, the Africa of hatred and futility.
Sensing an untold story, Sidey hit the rails to interview people at all levels of the freight industry. He rode a Conrail train up the west side of the Hudson River Valley, getting an engineer's-eye view of spectacular scenery; half a continent away, he observed the switchings, couplings...
Despite the Continent's apparently superior vantage point, Marsden says, "I wouldn't make plans to take a special trip to Europe to see the meteors." While the 1992 Perseid showers, visible over Europe, occurred precisely at the predicted time, he notes, the 1991 Perseids, seen in Japan, were inexplicably...
The killing of any innocent character is invariably portrayed in such a maudlin, mawkish way that there can be no mistake about the moral status of the act. If TV shaped our behavior, then America would likely be a continent of self-righteous citizens out to exact justice in a...
With all this data, 19th century scholars began trying to decipher the hieroglyphic script, reconstruct Maya history and figure out what caused the civilization to fall apart. In the absence of any historical context, though, speculation tended to run a little wild. Some ascribed the monumental buildings to survivors of...