Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White-tailed deer are suburban creatures, and a surge in the deer population as forests have regrown in the Northeast offers one reason that Lyme disease has hit hard in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and lower New England. Wisconsin and Minnesota have had smaller outbreaks, and so, though the ticks are a different species, has Northern California...
Similar grisly rites apparently took place at the 160-acre Texoma Hunting Wilderness owned by Charles B. ("Bart") Bartholomew, in Bryan County, Okla., about 100 miles northeast of Dallas. For roughly $8,000 each, hunters could stand in a fenced field where mountain lions, grizzly bears and other beasts were prodded out of cages into their gunsights. State and federal agents raided the multimillion-dollar operation and arrested Bartholomew. His trial ended last week in a plea bargain; he will spend six months in jail, do 400 hours of community service and forfeit his "preserve" to the state. County district...
...once they found their way out of the Big Apple, southerners Wilson and Hughes--who hail from Fort Smith, Ark. and Fort Worth, Tex., respectively--decided that they could have just as good a time exploring the Northeast as they could in the Southeast, without wasting four days of travel time...
Suspicions zeroed in at once on the Tamil Tigers, a combat-hardened band of guerrillas who have been fighting for a separate state in northeast Sri Lanka. Notoriously dedicated and vengeful, the Tigers have mastered terrorist bombing to a degree still unknown among India's own insurgents. Gandhi, whose mother's policies had done much to whelp and teethe the Tigers, earned their enmity in 1987 when he co-authored a peace plan for their offshore island republic. Instead of surrendering their arms, the Tigers fought Indian peacekeeping troops in hit-and-run warfare with extensive casualties...
Choate is 80 miles northeast and a world away from the Burger school, an oasis of learning located in a neighborhood of burned-out buildings, where sporadic gunfire is a regular event. "We have people in Mercedes and Jaguars from Connecticut and New Jersey out in front of the school buying drugs," says Tom Minicucci, the director of the senior steel band. "It is like the bazaars at Marrakesh...