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...Lowman fire, 75 miles northeast of Boise, destroyed 25 houses and businesses, including a resort lodge. Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus declared an extreme emergency to call in more than 300 National Guardsmen to help 9,000 fire fighters battling to control the burning land. Although the fires are not quite as bad as last year's, 462 million board feet of timber have been destroyed in the Boise National Forest alone...
...After the new chastity, it's a return to sin," proclaimed the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. It is the lambada, a sensuous dance that sets the pelvis-to-pelvis physicality of Dirty Dancing to a steamy Brazilian beat. Spawned on the northeast coast of Brazil, the lambada has swept through France this summer. A soda commercial showing young bodies entwined in a lambada frenzy was an instant hit, and Lambada, a song that served as the ad's sound track, has sold more than 1 million copies...
Javier Lopez, the Red Cross duty officer in Los Mochis, 60 miles northeast of the crash site, said most of those on the train had apparently been sleeping and that most of the victims drowned...
...knew I would get a lot of flack from relatives when I decided to go to school in the Northeast, but what I didn't anticipate was pressure from friends and other first-year students to conform to the Eastern way of life. My grandmother, you see, still wages the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War, if you weren't sure), and she couldn't stand the fact that I might go to the H-school and become or worse yet, date, a "blue-bellied Yankee." (Heaven forbid.) No one was really standing around giving me lessons...
Harvard boasts some of the finest athletic facilities in the Northeast. And the Athletic Department's commitment to ensuring that all facilities are open to the Harvard community means that all undergraduates can use them at almost any time...