Word: northerner
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...students of class CM2 at the St. Joan of Arc elementary school are playing with their food - and their teacher is delighted. The kids, 11- and 12-year-olds from the town of Laventie in northern France, finger fleshy chunks of mango with fascination and wince as they suck on lime slices. During the course of the morning, the class learns that fruits contain minerals, fiber, sugar and vitamins. "Who knows why we need vitamin C?" asks Carole de Bailleul, a nutritionist employed by the local school district. Three hands shoot up. "Without it we become tired," answers Margo Demarey...
Just last month another Equator Principles member, Credit Suisse First Boston, found itself the target of new global protests for its decision to underwrite Shell's controversial Sakhalin II pipeline in the northern Pacific, a project that environmentalists say threatens the endangered western gray whale. Without adequate transparency and monitoring of sensitive projects, NGOs fear, the Equator Principles will become meaningless. "What good is a series of principles like this if you can't verify that they are being applied on a project-by-project basis?" asks Oil Change's Kretzmann. "Equator banks are saying to people, 'Trust...
...West Point, he probably would have been president of a fraternity. He is pathologically social, both liked and looked up to by fellow cadets, especially those who bleed Army green. "Z?" they say. "He's huah," delivering the words with the appropriate Southern drawl--"heezoowah"--as though a Northern accent wouldn't do justice to someone so ... infantry. Upperclassmen give him equal deference. One of his fellow cadets asks him, straight-faced, "Can I still call you Z when you're a general...
...billion over the next 20 years. But what's "striking" about the base-closing plan, says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the nonpartisan Lexington Institute think tank in Arlington, Va., is "the geographical migration of the military out of the Frost Belt and into the Sun Belt." Northern states such as Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey will lose more than 19,000 military and civilian jobs at the facilities on Rumsfeld's hit list, while three Southern states, Georgia, Alabama and Texas, will have a net gain of 16,237 jobs...
...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...