Word: iceland
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...navigation. At first he wanted to succeed through trade. Sea trade was the lifeblood of Genova la superba, proud Genoa. As a merchant navigator, Columbus sailed all over the Mediterranean, to the Guinea coast of Africa and as far north as Ireland. He may have gone as far as Iceland too. Sometime between 1478 and 1484, the full plan of self- aggrandizement and discovery took shape in his mind. He would win glory, riches and a title of nobility by opening a trade route to the untapped wealth of the Orient. No reward could be too great...
...autobiographical article last year, Kalckar dubbed himself a "nomadic biochemist," citing his extensive research and collaboration with colleagues in many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union, Greenland, Iceland and Egypt...
...airport official. The police were not impressed with the soccer players' alleged language difficulties and locked up 30 of them. After 24 hours of searching unsuccessfully for a translator, the police decided it would be easier to call it off, and escorted the Albanians aboard their flight to Iceland. According to one official, the footballers may also have had language difficulties in Rome, because they were carrying items from that airport's duty-free shop...
...plethora of past and present ailments, given such names as Royal Free disease, neurasthenia, myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic mononucleosis, are all forms of CFS. The first documented CFS-like epidemic occurred in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, and a serious one struck 1,136 people in Iceland in 1948. A huge outbreak in 1984 affected as many as 100,000 people in the U.S., Canada and New Zealand, and fresh reports have popped up steadily since then. While CFS seems to strike young professionals with energetic life-styles particularly hard, CDC's Gunn says it was a mistake...
Able to cover a swath of sky from Iceland to the northern coast of South America, the OTH radar can monitor a smuggler's plane from soon after it takes off in, say, Colombia until it reaches the U.S. When a technician in Bangor sees an unscheduled flight over the Caribbean, the information will be relayed - to the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Center in Key West, Fla. An Air Force fighter will follow the suspect plane, and officers of the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration will be alerted to the mystery craft's course so that they...