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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is New Hampshire? An almanac calls it a "relatively small but well wooded and scenic state of mountains, lakes and rapid rivers that provide a good water supply and large hydroelectric-power potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Quadrennial Quest | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...which leaves Anderson to inhabit the abandoned tundra of the Republican center. And there he would have remained had not the press prematurely announced the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's candidacy, leaving many to search for a "liberal alternative...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: In Sheep's Clothing | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

...federal land in Idaho as a possible source of cobalt. Yet last November the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee designated 2.2 million acres surrounding the site as a wilderness preserve, and banned any commercial activity that would disturb the elk, bighorn sheep and 188 other species that inhabit the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strategic Metals, Critical Choices | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Should scientists fail to inform, to share, to teach, then it doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that our descendents are destined to inhabit, for better or worse, a scienceless society...

Author: By Eric J. Chaisson, | Title: Exploring the Invisible: Astronomy in the 70s | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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