Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maine (6) 18-3-1 219 1 16 3. Michigan 20-4-3 214 4 16 4. Lake Superior State 16-6-2 166 3 16 5. Boston University 17-5-2 139 8 16 6. Wisconsin 16-8-2 109 7 7 7. Northern Michigan 15-10-3 79 5 16 8. Harvard 10-3-3 70 not ranked 2 9. St. Lawrence 14-5-2 64 6 13 10. Michigan State...
Chicks raised in captivity have prospered at the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos, but returning to the wild is another matter. At least 30 of the 49 black-footed ferrets released in a Wyoming wilderness last fall have died. In Texas, reintroduced northern aplomado falcons were killed off by great horned owls that had moved into the falcons' old territory...
...race; they are irresistibly driven to impose some sort of structure on the most shapeless contest. Last year many were looking for someone to cast as the principal rival to presumed front-runner Mario Cuomo. They came up with Clinton partly because he seemed the perfect foil to a Northern Big Government liberal: a Southerner who took many moderate stands -- on education and welfare reform, for example -- and talked constantly about the "responsibility" of people who receive government benefits to do something in return...
...California condor is a prime example of what conservationists have labeled charismatic megafauna, a charmed circle of struggling species that are cute enough or distinctive enough to capture the public imagination. Among the others: the gray wolf, grizzly bear, bald eagle, desert tortoise and, of course, the northern spotted owl. Since the Endangered Species Act, which commits the government to protecting all life forms from extinction, became law in 1973, this select group of animals has received an inordinate share of funding...
...bright sun of a northern winter can still turn the palaces and churches of Peter the Great's city into a feast of visual elegance. But beneath the sparkling exterior, the mood of the city's 5 million inhabitants is as frigid as the ice piled up in the Neva River. Slowly, less dramatically than during the 900-day siege by the German Wehrmacht in World War II, St. Petersburg is experiencing real hunger...