Word: northerners
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Genovese discussed the long history of conservatism in the South and pointed out distinctions between Northern and Southern conservatism during the time of slavery...
...showing that in 1992 the average concentration of ozone in the upper atmosphere around the globe was 2% to 3% lower than any previous reading and 1.5% below what computer models predicted. That news came just a week after the World Meteorological Organization reported that ozone levels over some northern parts of Europe and Canada fell as much as 20% this winter...
Discovered in 1975 by researchers with the Archaeological Survey of Canada, these caves in the remote northern Yukon have yielded flaked stone tools that are 10,000 to 13,000 years old, what appear to be butchered mammoth bones 15,500 to 20,000 years old and bone tools from perhaps 23,500 years ago. To date, however, the researchers have been unable to find any hearths or other cultural features...
...ancient water hole called Taima-Taima in northern Venezuela became the deathbed of a young mastodon -- killed, apparently, by some of the first Americans. The site, excavated by Alan Bryan and Ruth Gruhn of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, appeared to contain 13,000-year-old mastodon bones, one of them embedded with a pointed stone projectile. Mixed in were stone tools and rounded pebbles that could have been made only by humans. Some archaeologists, however, believe the artifacts found at Taima-Taima became interspersed with the mastodon bones as the water level in the hole rose...
...saying peace would make cutting aid to Israel easier, right? Wrong. It's just the opposite. "Consider the northern front," explains Ze'ev Chafets, an Israeli journalist who served as spokesman for the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "If we give the Golan Heights back to Syria, we'll have to build expensive new defenses close by." Never mind that Israel could finance such projects itself; the post-peace game would be played differently. "If peace happens," says Chafets, "we'll be looking for more American money, not less -- just like we got from Jimmy Carter after we made peace...