Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...historic gold-rush country of Northern California, Lovetta Pyle has struck a vein of woe. Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage...
...leaky oil refineries, toxic-waste dumps at the headwaters of rivers, scrapyards of twisted metal and swaths of clear-cut land: grim testimony to the failure of the Soviet system to care for Siberia's fragile ecosystem. Industrial society seems to lead inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior Department report says would cause "irreparable harm." There is a monster lurking in the frigid reaches of the north...
...said the Peabody Museum has repatriated three collections of human remains, including 50 individuals to the Narragansett in 1972, before NAGPRA, six individuals to the Northern Cheyenne in 1993 and 167 individuals to Hawaii...
...United Nations could have chosen a worse host than China, but participants at the Fourth World Conference on Women were hard pressed last week to think of one. As the official U.N. event opened in Beijing, more than 30,000 delegates to a parallel, nongovernmental conclave in the remote northern suburb of Huairou were still contending with all manner of inadequacies and harassments. Just why China should have put on such an unseemly display for all the world to see was a consuming puzzle, but at least the International Olympic Committee had cause for relief. Two years ago this month...
...October Sat. 7 at Ivy League Tournament Sun. 8 (at Brown) Wed. 11 MASSACHUSETTS 8 p.m. Fri. 13 Eastern League Tournament(at Queens) Iona 4:15 p.m. Fordham 7:30 p.m. Sat. 14 Queens 7 p.m. Fri. 20 BOSTON COLLEGE 8 p.m. Fri. 27 EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIPS Sun. 29 QUALIFIER (Northern Div. at Harvard) November Sat. 4 at Eastern Championships Sun. 5 (at Navy...