Word: norths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they reputedly pay the A.V.P. handsomely for the rights to do so. Armato thinks volleyball does well on the small screen because it features "a lot of action, the beach and a lot of tanned, great-looking people." Formerly a big hit only between San Diego and Sorrento Beach, north of Los Angeles, the tournaments are currently attracting crowds that average 25,000 at waterside sites in Atlantic City, Chicago and Cleveland. A.V.P. officials are thinking of charging admission next year...
...Stuka dive bomber, which plunged down to blast road junctions and railroad lines; it also had a device that emitted screams to spread terror among its victims. And then there were the heavy bombers. General Wladyslaw Anders, who would eventually lead the Polish exile army through the battles of North Africa and Italy, heard the ominous drone of Heinkel-111s overhead and later remembered that "squadron after squadron of aircraft could be seen flying in file, like cranes, to Warsaw." At 6 a.m. those deadly cranes began raining bombs on the unprepared, ill-defended city and its civilian inhabitants...
That very night, Britons learned of the first such sacrifice: 200 miles west of Scotland in the North Atlantic, the unarmed British liner Athenia, carrying 1,400 passengers from Liverpool to Montreal, was hit and sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine U-30; 112 passengers, including 28 Americans, died...
These forests are the last untouched remnants of the great woods that once blanketed enormous areas of North America. Only 15% of the country's old- growth forests are left, but some of their ancient trees have survived for 1,000 years. Millions of acres of these forests are protected from logging because they are inaccessible or set aside as national parks or wildlife areas. The issue is how to manage the rest. Even by the U.S. Forest Service's estimate, the current cutting rate of 170 acres a day could wipe out unprotected virgin woodlands within just...
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