Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ETHXIC SPLIT in Boston is fairly clean-cut, but politically only the Irish and Italians rule Boston. The council has been divided between Kerrigans, Hyneses, Foleys, Iannellas and Langones for years. The majority of the Irish candidates live in Dorchester and South Boston, while the Italians reside in the North End and East Boston, both heavy Neapolitan sections of the city...
...miles a year between Canada and Central America. Emlen put the birds in a planetarium and studied their reaction to fall star patterns. To his surprise, the birds seemed to ignore the artificial heavens on the planetarium dome. Outside it was spring, and the birds always tried to head north...
...only star that they did heed was Polaris, the North Star. As long as it appeared, they retained their sense of direction. But when it was removed from the planetarium sky, they seemed hopelessly confused. From these experiments, Emlen concluded that they probably use Polaris, which is visible all year in the northern hemisphere, as a celestial beacon on both legs of their journey...
More important, the tests convinced him that the secret of the buntings' navigational skill lies in their body chemistry. It tells them not only when to travel but also whether to fly toward or away from the North Star. The most likely agent, he thinks, is a hormone or combination of hormones, secreted in response to varying amounts of daylight as the seasons change. If Emlen can identify these hormones and discover how they work, he may help explain how similar biological clocks work in other animals, including...
Some negotiations with the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese would be necessary to carry out the plan he advocates, Calkins noted. Since the United States must retain a position from which to negotiate, it cannot declare that it intends to withdraw unconditionally from Vietnam, he added...