Word: northerners
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...multiplied by problems such as poverty, population growth and new antibiotic-resistant diseases," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Honduran and Nicaraguan urban shanty dwellers were more vulnerable to the flooding caused by Hurricane Mitch than were their middle-class neighbors, while the burden of last year?s harsh Northern Hemisphere winter was heaviest for the 44 million Russians who live in poverty. "Even greater calamities are looming on the horizon, and the global impact of problems such as disease make it unwise for the U.S. to ignore," says Dowell. "Unfortunately, we?ve tended to break down rather than build...
...study also highlights the potential for managed-care companies to do good epidemiological studies. Funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Carlos Iribarren and colleagues from Kaiser Permanente combed through the computerized medical records of the company's health plan in Northern California and found 16,228 men who had never smoked cigarettes or cigars and another 1,546 men who smoked only cigars. Then they studied the men's medical histories from 1971 to 1995 to see how they fared...
Like a lap dancer in a go-go bar, North Korea doesn?t have time to sit down and talk if there?s no reward involved. Earlier this year the U.S. had to agree to an aid package in order to get access to Northern nuclear facilities; more recently, South Korea had to promise a large shipment of fertilizer to coax its neighbors to talks in Beijing Monday on allowing some 10 million Koreans to reunite with family members they?ve not seen in four decades because of the war. But then bad weather prevented the South Korean freighter carrying...
...details to iron out if the settlement plan is to work. The two-page, 10-point agreement left key issues unresolved, including sensitive questions of command. For weeks Moscow not only insisted on participating in the peace force but tried to place its troops in charge of Kosovo's northern quadrant, where many Serbian holy sites lie. Washington refused for fear that would effectively partition the province. Now the diplomats are wrangling over just what role the Russian troops will play and who will command them. Russia's proud military men oppose the settlement, making it harder for Moscow...
These properties have the look of any treed area one might find in Western Massachusetts or Northern New England, yet are but a five-minute drive to beautiful ocean beaches. Hence, an owner would have a residence which would serve not only as a "place at the shore," but also as a weekend retreat, October to May, as well as a home for the years of retirement...