Word: northern
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...kind of violence that Britons had come to expect in Northern Ireland but not in their own traditionally peaceful streets. But this summer has changed that, as poor, unemployed blacks and whites have turned their frustration on one another-and the police. For British cops, the Netting Hill riot was their third violent racial clash in as many weeks. The earlier fights, in which 115 cops were injured, were provoked by demonstrations of Britain's National Front, a 4,500-member neofascist organization that wants to send the country's 2 million black and Asian immigrants back...
...rush is on in a thousand old mining locations across the country, including parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The richest-and most crowded-site is the Mother Lode, a network of streams cutting through the High Sierra in Northern California. There at General John Suiter's mill, 90 miles south of Downieville, James Marshall set off the great gold rush of 1849 by discovering a shiny gilt object smaller than a pea. While the Mother Lode has yielded a billion dollars' worth of gold since then, geologists estimate that the vast majority of the region...
Bobby Phillips, 36, an office manager who is being transferred by MacMillan Bloedel Containers Inc. from Dayton, Ohio, to northern New Jersey, started looking for a new home and "was terribly disappointed." Says he: "The prices are so much higher than where I come from: $20,000 or $30,000 more for the same thing. And the real estate taxes are four times what they are in the Dayton area." Demand is so hectic that Phillips had to move fast: the 19-year-old house that he chose was on the market all of 30 hours before he agreed...
...County, a basic 100-ft. by 75-ft. lot that sold for $3,500 a decade ago now commands $17,500. The price has risen $2,000 just since May, and Douglas Wiles, a Miami housing economist, predicts a further $4,000 increase by year's end. In the northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C., Builder Edward Carr paid $7,442 for a quarter-acre lot in 1969; now the price is $23,000. That accounts for almost half of the rise in the price that Carr charges for his four-bedroom homes, from...
...some extent, malaria's comeback results from overconfidence bred by the success of antimalaria drives in the 1950s and 1960s. From the southern U.S. to northern Argentina in South America, the Pan American Health Organization (a branch of WHO), UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development had cooperated with national governments in financing a massive extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale...