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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences willaward 248 doctorates of philosophy, 211 master ofarts and 33 master of science degrees. No masterof engineering or master of forest science degreesare being awarded this year, according to thegraduate registrar's office...
...Grady, the pilot of the downed U.S. F-16, was rescued at dawn after five days of wandering throughhostile Bosnian Serb territory. Using attack jets and two rescue helicopters, a small group of U.S. Marines dodged missiles and gunfire to pick up O'Grady in a sparsely populated forest several miles from where his plane crashed. As the rescue forces homed in on the radio signal O'Grady was sending, he set off a small yellow smoke signal to fix his location. Military sources reported that as the Marines were touching down in the wooded area, O'Grady came running...
...shutter Fort McClellan's 46,000 acres, nestled in the Appalachian foothills just outside the city of Anniston. Most of its operations, including the military's police and chemical schools, would be sent 350 miles north to Fort Leonard Wood, 63,000 acres of Ozarks wrapped by a national forest and near a few tiny towns...
...million Germans after the war, in 1945 and 1946. Another reason is that industrialization, avidly pursued during the years of communist rule in Prague, has stripped much of the land of its character. West of Decin, where we had crossed the Elbe, there is a new bridge, but the forest and meadow-the green countryside I remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like the end of the war," Lubos said, pointing to one jagged excavation. Pollution haze...
...current crop, Mel has rearranged the lights and tried different containers. He began with 18 plants and is now down to one. Well, actually two. "There's another weird plant that's growing in there that isn't pot," Mel says. Compared to the forest in Johnny's closet, Mel's closet looks like it has been clearcut. Next to one sickly plant is a pencil, stuck in the soil "to support the plant so it won't tip over...