Word: northerners
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...problem's severity fluctuate virtually with each new set of measurements from the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the estimates do seem to possess one common thread: they are getting worse. Last week's announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that the shield may be | disappearing nearly twice as fast in northern latitudes as many scientists had predicted is the most alarming report to date. The study noted that the loss was occurring both farther south, over the most populous regions of the U.S., and later in the spring -- when more people spend time outside -- than had been thought. Worse, the additional thinning...
...Diego readers, wooing them with regional editions of the Times, each tailored to local audiences by an on-site staff. While publisher Laventhol says he has no intention of ceding these outposts to entrenched regional and local newspapers, the Times has shelved ambitious plans to extend its reach into Northern California, the Northwest and, eventually, the Pacific...
...report, delivered by Dalziel and his colleague Eldridge Moores of the University of California at Davis, revealed a key piece of new evidence. On the shore of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, the scientists had tentatively identified an ancient rock formation known as the Grenville Belt, which runs from northern Canada along the eastern seaboard and then dips out of sight in southwestern Texas. This geologic connection, combined with some data from the magnetic orientation of ancient rocks, suggests that Antarctica, as well as Australia, was shoved up against the western coast of North America late in the Precambrian period...
Slowly but perceptibly, some of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority are joining the province's middle class. And that bodes well for the success of new negotiations to decide Ulster's future announced in London last week. The talks culminate 14 months of intricate diplomacy and are slated to begin by the end of April. They will include three separate, interlocking conferences: one will involve Northern Ireland's mainly Protestant unionist political parties, which want to see the province remain part of Britain, and the principally Catholic nationalist parties, which want Ulster to be part of Ireland. Other talks will...
...immediate goal is to restore limited self-government to Northern Ireland, which has been ruled directly by London since 1972. But the hope is that the talks will eventually lead to a permanent end to the conflict, and the improving prosperity of the Catholics should help. "People want an end to all the killings," said Seamus Mallon, a leader of the liberal Social Democratic and Labour Party. Protestant extremists and the Irish Republican Army, whose political wing, Sinn Fein, was denied a seat at the talks, are expected to respond with a new wave of violence...