Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday the Democratic Party announced that it would return $450,000 it had received in 1995 from Arief and Soraya Wiriadinata, two Indonesians with ties to the Riady empire who lived briefly in Northern Virginia. Only 10 days before, Democratic National Committee chairman Don Fowler had said the donation was legal and had been "thoroughly reviewed." But on Friday the D.N.C. said that the Wiriadinatas had "not filed their U.S. income tax return for 1995" and that the committee could not take the money "in these circumstances." The D.N.C. said it would return the money--just as soon...
...arid badlands of northern Ethiopia's Hadar region have long been a fossil-hunter's paradise. It was there, two decades ago, that paleontologists unearthed the celebrated Lucy, a primitive ancestor of modern humans dating back more than 3 million years. On this trip, though, an international team of scientists was on the trail of something less ancient but much more mysterious. Somewhere between 2 million and 3 million years ago, experts believe, Lucy's descendants had evolved into true humans. But despite decades of searching, scientists had yet to find a single well-dated fossil that showed...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Forecast: Indicators tilt slightly toward a milder-than-normal winter in most of the southern half of the country, a dryer-than-normal winter in the northern Rockies and the Florida Peninsula and a wetter-than-normal winter in much of the south central portions of the country. Methodology: Computer analysis of global atmospheric and oceanic data...
...Starred as Dole during Clinton's debate preps; named negotiator in Northern Ireland...
Alex Wilson, a second-year doctoral student from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, says Native American perspectives are legitimized in academic circles because of their connection with Harvard...