Word: landed
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...taken place last week. But on the surface, at least, it was still a 19th-century one: The woman gave up her name, formally relinquished custody of her children and brought a sizable dowry with her (in the form of a $200-million endowment and acres of prime Cambridge land...
...protagonist, in fact, is really the land itself, and Washington State will never have a more loving chronicler than Guterson, a lifelong Seattleite who names every tree and evokes, with arresting grandeur, the sound of a coyote's distant howl, or a boy's delight in rivers and horses. With its old-fashioned words like surcease and travail and its unembarrassed talk of caring, Guterson's story becomes a kind of affirmation of open-hearted faith. Ben sees a mountain goat running, and he "felt poised on the cusp of the world, as close to God as he might ever...
...Lycos, which now carries the Environmental News Service in place of Envirolink, cave in to an insignificant squawk from the far reaches of Webland? Lycos execs say no, and it is true that Envirolink shows up among the search engine's top-rated enviro websites. But the conservative American Land Rights Association seems to think yes, and offers a Web address www.lycos.com at which Lycos may be thanked for right thinking. What's a Web crawler to believe? Well, for one thing, that Japanese car, motorcycle and snowmobile manufacturers--the power here is quite real, not virtual--are trying, through...
...that will be tough new EPA proposals, expected by the end of the month, for regulations mandating cleaner gasoline and lower limits on auto pollution, particularly from sport utility vehicles. The Administration has pushed through Congress important legislation, such as the California Desert Protection Act, which covers more public land than any other conservation law affecting the Lower 48 states. Clinton and Gore largely beat back--with some exceptions--an assault on environmental laws and regulations by Republicans when they captured the House and Senate in 1994, and have found ways around hostile legislators to implement policies favored by conservationists...
ARMORED ATTACK TANKS (AATs) These lumbering Trade Federation land ships are not exactly speeder bikes, but their heavily armored noses are strong enough to smash through walls...