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...Cleave's farm in Highampton, sheep passed the disease to cattle; some of the sheep were then sent to a slaughterhouse about 170 km east, while others were bought by a farm in Herefordshire, some 200 km north, causing one more outbreak. Still another batch went 300 km northeast to a market in Northampton. Cleave packed a shipment of 348 sheep off to the British Channel port of Dover, where they were carried to Germany on a livestock ferry...
...Christians don't have castes.) The Parsis of Bombay, descendants of refugees from Iran and one of India's most influential business communities, were also incensed that their Zoroastrian religion was not listed on the census form. And in insurgency-plagued Kashmir to the northwest and Assam to the northeast the census provoked a new battle over language and religion. Kashmir didn't want its status as a Muslim majority state undermined. In Assam the native Assamese wanted to ensure their numbers were not overtaken by immigrants from Bangladesh and West Bengal. In both states census officials faced death threats...
...father John, a carpenter and cabinetmaker and railway mail clerk, is taking his leave of this world in a bedroom that was mine when I was 18. I lay where he is lying now, in the northeast corner of the room, and looked out the window at night to a red blinking light on a distant water tower and imagined living in New York City and other grand things, and now at 87 he lies in the bed and imagines the risen Christ meeting him with open arms, as in the hymns that his morning nurse Ramona sings...
...major snowstorm battered the Northeast, Harvard College remained one of the only institutions--including schools, businesses and government offices--to stay open, despite weather emergency advisories from the state and city...
Felicitously removed from the wintry weather currently plaguing the Northeast, the Harvard men's tennis team wrapped up its two-day swing through sunny Florida with an impressive 5-2 win over the Clemson Tigers...