Word: flora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern's Flora twins sewed up the team win with a one-two finish in the two-mile, followed by Ed Sheehan of Harvard at third. The relay events split down the middle as the Harvard mile relay team of Frim, Lamppa, Nicodemus and McAndrews edged their Huskie counterparts by less than two seconds while Northeastern was the undisputed victor in the two-mile relay event...
...Mark Lech, the All-American runner who placed fourth in a middle-distance event in last year's Nationals. Lech can run well in any middle distance event and usually has--especially in the half-mile and the 600 yard run. Then there's the distance team of Flora-Bickford-Flora, which has been busy quashing Crimson hopes for a first place victory in the GBCs for the past few cross-country seasons...
Bruce Bickford is one of the best milers in New England, and has been known to run this event in 4:01. John Flora, the better half of the Flora brother act, is a two-mile specialist, but like Bickford, can easily run well in middle distance events...
...world's weather, how pollution is gradually depleting valuable fisheries and destroying salt marshes where sea birds breed. Its last important section is a series on the world's major ocean areas, tracking origins of the warm Mediterranean Sea and the frigid Arctic Ocean, assaying values of flora, fauna and inanimate components of the marine world, outlining what must be done to preserve and protect them...
...islands that dot the Indian Ocean, few could be more obscure than Tromelin. Understandably so. It is a tear-shaped chunk of sand less than one mile long and 700 yards wide. Its flora consists of four coconut palms and some nondescript bushes that submerge whenever the sea turns rough. Nonetheless, Tromelin has become the focus of a heated political controversy. Three nations claim it: France, which currently controls it, Mauritius and Madagascar (formerly Malagasy). Their feud may have to be resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague...