Word: mi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish state. A stranger proffers hard-line Israeli logic: "Look, wars have consequences. This is a violent and dislocating century that has created millions of refugees all over the world. There are more than 200 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, occupying 5 million sq. mi. There are 3.8 million Israeli Jews on a tiny sliver of land. The Arabs have tried in war after war to destroy Israel. The Jews have prevailed. What do you expect from them? Besides, what law of history says that a people aspiring to be a nation will have a state...
...rich Caspian agricultural provinces of Zanjan and Gilan cover 20,000 sq. mi. In one minute the earthquake, which measured as high as 7.7 on the Richter scale, turned scores of towns into wastelands of flattened houses and apartment buildings. Entire villages were reduced to rubble, their inhabitants buried beneath mountains of debris. Television film showed young men frantically trying to free victims from slides of dirt and the remains of homes. Women in black chadors clustered in town squares, fearful of returning home or lacking a home to return to. Children wept among the dead and the injured. Amid...
...Opera House. Part rock, part raga, part dreamscape and part photo-realism, the minimalist ethos was distilled by composer Philip Glass and theater artist Robert Wilson in a 4 1/2-hour operatic extravaganza called Einstein on the Beach. The sung text consisted solely of numbers and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., while the music was built from a series of simple phrases, insistently repeated. The effect was either riveting or maddening, depending on one's point of view. But few could deny that a powerful new movement had been born...
...Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed an agreement to abolish border checks for travelers and their luggage. The accord will go into effect in 1992. When it does, the internal frontiers shared by the five countries, including a newly unified Germany, will be partly dissolved, creating a 373,766-sq.-mi. passport-free territory informally dubbed Schengenland...
...rivals. Bloods and Crips break down into small neighborhood sets, and it is not uncommon for one Crip group to fight another Crip group up the street, for Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach the carnage of Beirut or El Salvador on a per capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma. The U.S. Army has begun sending doctors to train in the emergency room...