Word: findings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backup Lion signal-caller Russ Scott ever sees Crimson defensive back Jon Lawrence walking down the street, he'll probably find the nearest phone booth to hide in. Lawrence picked off Scott's last two passes of the game, although a penalty nullified the first interception...
Quite simply: do not be intimidated. In sum, whether it be on the stage, in the classroom, or on the playing field, each of you possesses the capability for excellence. And if you forget that, find one of us, and we'll remind...
...much admired, America, with its violent streets, racial tensions, drug addiction and homelessness, is no longer the beckoning place it once was. Says Jean Manuel Bourgois, vice president of Groupe de la Cite, France's second largest publishing house: "The magic of the American dream has gone. Today Europeans find less to envy in America...
...rain forest is deceptively fragile. Left to itself, it is an almost self-sustaining ecosystem that thrives indefinitely. But it does not adapt well to human invasions and resists being turned into farm- or ranchland. Most settlers find that the lush promise of the Amazon is an illusion that vanishes when grasped...
...manioc for a few years until the meager soil is exhausted, then move deeper into the forest to clear new land. The farming and burning thus become a perpetual cycle of depredation. Thousands of pioneers give up on farming altogether and migrate to the Amazon's new cities to find work. For many the net effect of the attempt to colonize Rondonia has been a shift from urban slums to Amazonian slums. Says Donald Sawyer, a demographer from the University of Minas Gerais: "The word is out that living on a 125-acre plot in the jungle is not that...