Word: northeast
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Over 80 aftershocks from the earthquake, which struck a sparsely populated area of New Brunswick, Canada, have occured since the eruption Saturday. The largest of these shook the northeast coastal region on Tuesday...
...relative infrequency of earthquakes in this region in the past 200 years makes it unlikely that another one of the same magnitude will occur in the near future, John Haller, professor of Geology, said yesterday. Earthquakes in the northeast do not normally trigger a whole line of successive quakes, as they do around the Pacific Ocean, he added...
...Kirghiz have fled from the Communists twice: first from Soviet Kirghizistan to Xinjiang--Chinese Turkestan, whence they fled to Afghanistan at the time of the Communist take-over in China. The Soviets, according to Dupree, have annexed the entire Wakhan Corridor, the sprit of land jutting off to the northeast of Afghanistan, where they are busy building roads to consolidate their claim to the area...
...What we're trying to do is to bring the needs of the University before alumni all over America. This fall we were in the Northeast, but we'll be moving down to the South and Midwest this winter and spring," Thomas M. Reardon, director of University Development, said yesterday...
...usually works with sandstone blocks from the northeast of Thailand, an area once ruled by the Angkor kings, which provide him with the same kind of stone used for the Angkor temples. He carefully gives each sculpture its own personality. After giving life to the figure, he gives it years as well, usually breaking the head from the body just as the centuries have done to the originals. "When you break the neck off," he explains with professional pride, "it must look natural." He heats the sculpture with a hair dryer, paints it with a secret chemical solution, and buries...