Word: mississippi
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...Department. Said Spokesman Robert Sims: "It is a bad precedent to use the Army as a police force." Other critics said the amendment would hurt military preparedness and questioned whether soldiers could be properly trained as law enforcers in 30 days. Proponents dismissed such caution. "This is war," declared Mississippi Republican Trent Lott. "If this isn't defending the shores, I don't know what...
...third threat is a strain of fire ant called Solenopsis invicta that was discovered this year in northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and Oklahoma. Until now the insects, which first entered the U.S. five decades ago, had been confined to a warm-weather belt between Lubbock, Texas and Beaufort, N.C. Invicta has managed to make a different but equally menacing adaptation. The species has begun nesting in supercolonies, insect megalopolises that contain 10 million to 20 million ants. Says Clifford Lofgren of the USDA'S Agricultural Research Service: "Larger colonies eat crops such as soybeans, potatoes and other vegetables. They have...
This week's American Scene story on Soviet and American peace delegates steamboating down the Mississippi River was written by Jay Carney, a Russian and East European studies major at Yale. The People section carries an item about a gigantic "Jaws"-like shark caught off Long Island that was reported by Peter Cleveland, a history student at Columbia University. The photograph of New Yorkers at an antidrug candlelight vigil in the lead Nation story was taken by Carl Ganter, a student in the American-culture program at Northwestern. Throughout the summer the World Notes page has been written by Princeton...
Together with 45 other Soviets and 125 Americans, Grechko was spending a summer week "steamboatin' " down the Mississippi River, from St. Paul to St. Louis, on the legendary Delta Queen. Stopping daily at towns along the way, the first ever "Mississippi Peace Cruise" brought the "evil empire" to America's heartland, and the heartland, curious and honored but not intimidated, opened its arms in welcome...
...panoramas that were so popular in 19th century America scrolling creakily past, a journey re-created as spectacle, stripped of its pastoral imagery and retooled in terms of media glut. Hey, look! you hear the nasal voice of the artist saying: this is what the banks of the electronic Mississippi look like as they glide by. Here is a succession of odd dreams, bigger than life: a red fingernail the size of a mudguard, a slough of squirming orange spaghetti, a girl whose perfect, impersonal beauty has to advertise something other than herself, the black void of outer space...