Word: midwest
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...Tuesday, workers from some 200 electric companies stretching across the Midwest were ready to fan out across the tiny town of Jerome, Ill., and the surrounding Springfield area to continue the heavy task of fixing an electrical system effectively laid to waste during the powerful storms and tornadoes that tore through parts of the Midwest through the weekend. At least 10 people were confirmed dead from the storms that hopscotched across Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and other Midwest states...
...Across the Midwest stores were selling out quickly of such essentials as water and basic foods, but also of generators, heating oil and chainsaws. A sales rep at a small farm shop at the edge of town said some 20 generators and 35 chain saws were sold Monday as the cleanup began. Hotels and motels were at capacity, as were Red Cross shelters as families sought refuge amid reports that power could be out to some 10,000 for as long as three days...
...glaciers are melting faster than anyone expected. That is more proof of global warming, and the resulting rise in sea levels makes the immediate impact of climate change worse than anticipated. The glaciers are also receding at Glacier National Park, Mont. We are having milder winters in the Midwest, and tropical frog species are disappearing. What more evidence does anybody need...
...Pacific region - Washington, Oregon and California - came in next with regional prices increases of 18.75%. Home prices on the East Coast, in states from Maryland to Florida, showed their fastest growth rate since 1975, jumping nearly 18%. The smallest gains continued to occur in New England and the Midwest, where prices still managed to increase by about 10% and 7% respectively...
...Times columnists don’t have to make sense. The claim that Harvard faculty have abandoned the Revolution has been making the rounds of the right-wing press for several years now. A couple of years ago, I actually received an e-mail from a correspondent in the Midwest asking me if it was true, as a local columnist claimed, that Harvard had replaced its course on the Revolution with courses on midwifery and quilting. As the author of a rather well-known book on an 18th-century midwife, I knew when I had been zinged. Complaints about...