Word: lande
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OSLO: It's what Diana would have wanted. The International Campaign to Ban Land Mines won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday ? and if measured by the growth of their movement alone, the award is well-deserved. The ICBL began five years ago as a loose alliance of less than five anti-land-mine groups. Today it comprises over a thousand. And despite the boost given by Diana's support and her tragic death, credit belonged Friday to another woman: American coordinator Jody Williams...
This has only exacerbated the frivolity of political life in our nation's capital, the most ostentatious example being campaign finance proceedings. On Tuesday afternoon, the bill meant to overhaul our country's obviously inept campaign-financing system was left floundering in nowhere land because the majority of Senators chose not to end debate on the competing proposals, effectively preventing a decision on the legislation. Let me reiterate: the campaign-finance laws, despite their obvious disfunctionality, are not being changed...
...building were built more than 50 years ago, the commission must issue a permit before it can be demolished, Liza Malenfant Paden, assistant land use planner of the Cambridge Development Department, said...
...ancient Egyptians looked to the land to the south, or Nubia, for many of their needs, including protection. The Egyptians implied that their first Pharaohs came from the land to the south, bringing an abundance of Nubian knowledge to Egypt with their rule. Now that archaeologists and Egyptologists are turning away from the racial prejudice practiced in earlier years against Africans, perhaps more specialists in the field will agree that the ancient Nubian civilization formed the basis of the first Egyptian dynasties. LEE M. ROBINSON, President African Historical Research Society St. Louis...
...station's most critical moments; now he can't even get home. Poor weather, gusty wind and intense cloud-cover over Florida frustrated the Shuttle Atlantis' attempts to return Foale to Earth Sunday. NASA instructed the seven-member shuttle crew to stay aloft an extra day and try to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Monday. It wasn't the only hitch in space traffic: back on Mir, a cargo ship docking was delayed Monday...