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...Europe, where the techno movement took off during the late '80s, raves have reached mammoth proportions. The so-called Worldwide House Nation gathered in Berlin last month for a megarave billed as "The Love Parade." Accompanied by about 20 trucks laden with computers, techno deejays and powerful sound systems, 7,000 revelers danced down the city's main street, then converged for an all-night rave. An even larger rave is planned in Mannheim on Aug. 29. And raves are still going strong in Belgium and England, where some events have attracted as many as 20,000 people...
...provisions buried within the mammoth Higher education reauthorization Act may make college campuses safer, advocates said yesterday...
That, however, is a mammoth job that would begin very late if it started today. The idea that every group with a common ancestry, language, history and culture should have its own state and write its own laws goes back more than a century. The principle of self-determination got a big boost from Woodrow Wilson at the end of World War I, and in 1945 was written into the Charter...
Widener Library:1. Mammoth library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. where students go to pore over books and sometimes, each other...
...working out repayment plans. But a national debate has now sprung up over whether the country would be better off if sick firms were allowed to die. Last year nearly 21,000 firms filed Chapter 11 petitions, the most since 1986. More significant, many of the new cases are mammoth, involving such familiar names as Macy's, TWA and Orion Pictures. While few large companies entered Chapter 11 before the mid-1980s, more than a dozen with assets exceeding $5 billion have taken refuge there in the past three years...