Word: northern
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Elsewhere, the fighting was pretty much "Vietnamized." In northern Quang Nam province, South Vietnamese regional force troops captured 58 of the enemy and killed another 130, including a battalion commander and a Communist district chief. Meanwhile, in the Mekong Delta, ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops and Marines struck back at North Vietnamese forces that had bested them in previous skirmishes...
...layers showed, for example, that the earth's last ice age began some 70,000 years ago and did not end until about 10,000 years ago. The investigators also made some long-range forecasts. Projecting the established weather pattern, they predicted that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to drop for 25 years before a warming trend sets...
With uncanny precision, the northern hemisphere's migratory birds fly south in the fall and north in the spring-often to targets that are continents or even oceans away. One theory holds that some birds get their traveling orders from the stars. Not quite, says Cornell Ornithologist Stephen T. Emlen. The cue comes from a "biological clock" set by the birds' internal response to seasonal changes in the length of days...
...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...
...Truman fired the opening shots of the cold war, that such a policy as the Truman Doctrine was the equivalent of bombarding Fort Sumter. Acheson is aware of the argument, and like the careful lawyer he is, presents a formidable brief for the defense. Soviet troops had occupied the northern provinces of Iran; to force them out strong American pressure was needed. The Truman Doctrine, which combined military and economic aid, was developed only to counter Soviet designs upon the faltering regimes of Greece and Turkey. To restore a Europe close to economic disintegration, the Marshall Plan was the only...