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...that the location of the observatory, then on the Thames at Greenwich, should be the site of the imaginary north-south line that marks 0 longitude. Only the French objected, unsuccessfully proposing a navigational line going through the center of Paris. Since then Greenwich mean time and the Greenwich meridian have become universally accepted as the foundation of worldwide timekeeping and navigation...
...Hydro power schemes generate 60% of the country's electricity. Why not build more? Meridian Energy knows. Last year it abandoned a $NZ1.2 billion, 500-megawatt project on the South Island's Waitaki river, saying it was not sure it would get the necessary environmental consents or water rights. New Zealand needs a new power project of that size every three years, says Leyland. But even small hydro schemes like the one on the Gowan river, or another on the nearby Wairau, raise hackles. "A lot of rivers will potentially be ruined," says Lawson Davey, of the Save the Wairau...
...soldiers' good luck set many civilians dreaming of Middle East riches. They soon got their chance: last November, newly formed Meridian Services began hiring truck drivers, mechanics, storemen and computer operators for the Kuwait-based Public Warehousing Company, which transports into Iraq "everything from frozen food to vehicles and construction materials," says Meridian director Timoci Lolohea. Salaries start at $1,700 a month, and "the response from the public has been overwhelming." Nine hundred men are already in Kuwait, and Meridian staff are touring rural villages in a drive to sign up another 4,000 workers, including women...
...slayings were especially sinister. On Sunday, June 21, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were headed to Meridian, Miss., in their station wagon. Outside Philadelphia, they were stopped by deputy sheriff Cecil Price, a Klansman, who put them in jail. According to testimony in the 1967 trial, Price plotted with Killen to release the three men that night, then have them tailed by Price, Killen and other Klansmen. The conspirators abducted the civil rights workers, whom Killen had allegedly ordered two Klansmen to shoot. The three bodies were buried on a nearby farm, where they were found a month and a half...
...terms of more contemporary authors, Bloom said “there’s no question about it, we have four first-class novelists writing at the moment,” Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Cormack McCarthy, whose Blood Meridian he said was “so savage and splendid there’s been nothing as good since Faulkner...