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Workers also built a dike to stop radioactive material from leaking into the Pripyat River, located near the Chernobyl site...

Author: By Robert S. Lee, | Title: Chernobyl Accident Studied | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Kilson considers himself "the first Black in," but he wasn't the last Ewart G. Guineer '33, the first chair of the newly born Afro-American Studies department, was also tenured in 1969 Gomes arrived in 1970, and Kenneth Dike was tenured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Faculty at Harvard: 25 Years of Vibrant History | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

...this time of year, the villagers would usually be busy cultivating the land, but their fields are flooded with salt water. The 10-ft. mud wall that normally keeps out the sea was washed away in the storm. Until the dike is rebuilt, the tides will bring more salinity to the soil, eventually making it unfit for farming and threatening Ujantia's existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangladesh | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...been for alcohol, Chappaquiddick almost surely would never have happened: Ted Kennedy, that is, would not have driven off the Dike Bridge on Martha's Vineyard in the middle of one night in the summer of 1969, drowning a young campaign worker named Mary Jo Kopechne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Teddy | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

Akwa would also be an ideal choice, Lee said, because it was the birthplace of the late Kenneth Onwuka Dike, a Cambridge resident and professor of African studies at Harvard from...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Activists Seek Sister City Ties | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

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