Word: northerners
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...commander of the First Brigade of the First Armored Division is in trouble for remarks he made about the warring factions in Bosnia. Army Col. Gregory Fontenot, commander of U.S. Army troops patrolling the still contested Posavina Corridor in northern Bosnia, was quoted in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal as saying, "They don't think I trust them, and they're right. These are people who kill women and children and attack their neighbors. They're offended by me? Hell, I'm offended that I had to come here because of all their fighting." Though the Pentagon remained tightlipped about...
...winter storm watch was called into effect yesterday afternoon for much of northern New England, potentially foiling travel plans for students heading for home for winter break...
...take winning and losing quite as seriously as most.") and his time as a postdoctoral fellow in Cambridge, England ("I go back there almost every summer," he says.), Stone paused in an interview last week to disprove the common belief that toilets flush in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a different direction in the Southern hemisphere...
Many scholars believe the archive must exist, though, and Yigael Yadin even thought he knew where it was: in the ancient city of Hazor, in northern Galilee. At his death, Yadin was planning a major dig there to find the clay tablets he was sure lay hidden beneath the surface. His protege, Ben-Tor, has inherited the project. To date, Ben-Tor has found only a few uninformative tablets. But Hazor is the largest biblical site in the country, and it will take years of digging to explore it fully...
...employers are not the only ones who can raid worker benefits. Steve Anderson, the president of AlcoTec Wire, a small manufacturer of aluminum wire in northern Michigan, wondered last year why employees who left to join other companies failed to receive their 401(k) settlement checks on time. The trail led to the Honer, Timberlake Pension Services firm. Charles Timberlake, the trustee for AlcoTec's plan, admitted to stealing what turned out to be nearly $365,000 of 401(k) money. "We got the whole tearful confession," Anderson says. "He just targeted our company." Fortunately for AlcoTec, its private insurance...