Word: inlander
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Nature should have told him that when he heads south from Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco. Instead, the 40-ton, 40-ft. humpback whale turned left and headed inland under the Golden Gate Bridge. For more than a week he has been swimming aimlessly in the shallow Sacramento River delta 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, a freshwater environment that eventually may kill the giant saltwater mammal...
...managers of sleepless gambling casinos shut down for the first time in their seven-year existence, in Norfolk the Navy got most of its ships out of the harbors to ride out the trouble, and all over the East the Air Force ordered its planes to the safety of inland air bases...
...wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced to flee exposed homes for inland sanctuaries or public shelters in schools and armories. There were widespread power failures that left more than 2.75 million customers without electricity, some for several days. Long Island, N.Y., smack in the path of Gloria's worst, for the most part suffered little but toppled poles and trees and smashed...
...Farther inland, at Atenquique, a town in Jalisco state, part of a mountain, said a policeman, "just slid away," burying several people. In nearby Ciudad Guzman, 25 people were killed as they worshiped in a church that collapsed on them. Elsewhere, four popular hotels in the hard-hit resort area of Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa, on the Pacific coast, had to be evacuated because of damage: Riviera del Sol, El Presidente, Dorado Pacifico and the Sheraton...
...World War II, three-quarters of all Hispanics on the U.S. mainland lived in Texas or California. As of 1980, those two states still accounted for 51% of the total Hispanic population. But large numbers have also settled in Arizona (16% Hispanic) and New Mexico (36%) and in such inland and Northern...