Word: northward
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...long trek northward brought the Harvard women's hockey team both Ivy League and non-league competition...
While fire ants have spread northward, the EPA doesn't think the problem is serious enough to outweigh the potential dangers of the pesticides to humans. According to the EPA, studies done in the 1970s indicated that Mirex was present in human mothers' milk all over the South. The agency says Mirex and chlordane are both dangerous to human health. "We call Mirex a possible human carcinogen. Mr. DeLay might disagree with that, but we believe the studies," says Sylvia Lowrance, an EPA spokeswoman. Other nonpartisan groups, including the Inter national Agency for Research on Cancer, agree . Both pesticides...
...equivalent of 22,000 tons of TNT, almost twice the power set forth by Little Boy. Trees had been knocked over in Hiroshima; in Nagasaki they were snapped in two. But the devastation in Nagasaki was limited, to an extent, by its topography; from the harbor, the city radiated northward in two valleys, separated by steep hills. The bomb exploded over the Urakami valley, Nagasaki's northwesterly fork, and the worst of the damage was contained there. The destruction, nevertheless, was infernal. About 74,000 were killed instantly. The Urakami Catholic church, which had the country's largest Christian congregation...
...disease, which has migrated northward from the Appalachian Mountains, has been confirmed in raccoon populations in nearly 90 percent on Massachusetts towns in the past year, according to state disease control records...
Serb forces acceded to the NATO-U.N. ultimatum and pulled virtually all their troops and heavy weapons away from Gorazde. But observers fear they may be moving them northward to Brcko (pronounced Birch-ko), a town on the Croatian- Bosnian border partly held by the Serbs that the U.N. is now considering naming a seventh "safe area." At U.N. headquarters in New York City, the Security Council approved 6,550 additional peacekeepers for Bosnia, after the U.S. withdrew its earlier objections to the cost...