Word: lowland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate has reached 1 ft. per year. Indeed, geological depression is so serious, reports the New York Academy of Sciences, that it has already caused millions of dollars in damage across the U.S. The toll has ranged from broken sewer lines and cracked pavements to an increased incidence of lowland flooding...
...region of the sky in which the Gum nebula lies does not look remarkable to the naked eye. Nonetheless, it has long been called Lakha Manta (The Gateway to Hell) by the Indians, for reasons they are unable to explain. More tantalizing still, Michanowsky found that among some lowland tribes this humdrum part of the sky is known as the Region of the Chase of the Celestial Ostrich, a bird revered in Indian mythology. According to Indian lore, the ostrich was driven across the sky by two voracious dogs and finally killed in the constellation Vela. Michanowsky also learned...
...matchmaker and midwife. From four rare pygmy hedgehog tenrecs, 20 have been raised for other zoos and eleven kept on Jersey. From four African civet cats, 14 have been shipped off and nine kept for further breeding. The zoo's most expensive inmate, a $12,000 male lowland gorilla, fathered one infant in July, and has impregnated a second female. The most notable success is the whiteeared pheasant, possibly extinct in the wild. The zoo has bred 51 of them and exported ten pairs to seven countries...
...boarded a chopper with a Northeast Command colonel for a lightning supply and inspection visit to a forward company command post in a remote foothills barrio in Isabela province. As the scenery below us quickly changed from the lush lowland rice fields to the forbidding forests and gullies of the Sierra Madre highlands, the pilot climbed to 2,000 feet, respectfully out of range of Thompson submachine guns and AK-47s. Suddenly, when he spotted the tiny H-shaped landing pad, he put the chopper into a tight sinking spiral and landed in the barrio. The supplies were unloaded...
...commission added that most crop destruction took place in the Central Highlands, the home of the Montagnards, a tribe racially and linguistically distinct from the Lowland Vietnamese...