Word: northwest
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Mayday organizers say they will resume antiwar demonstrations today, although numbers are dwindling due to arrests and to the increasing number of protesters leaving the city. Almost 200 people met last night at St. Stephens Church in Northwest Washington to decide strategy for today...
...highest number of arrests occurred in areas around Dupont Circle in northwest Washington, the Washington Memorial, and at George Washington...
Needed Regulation. By contrast, many expert witnesses argued that clear-cutting is ecologically damaging. Hurlon Ray, director of the Northwest regional office of the Federal Water Quality Office, contended that such logging can cause a 7,000-fold increase in stream sedimentation and destroy fish-breeding grounds. It also reduces food sources for birds and small mammals. Beyond all that, clear-cutting is unsightly, at least to those who value national forests as something far different from the "tree farms" that loggers favor...
...beneath the dense set-'em-right facts, the book is a hymn to the life of the mariner. Morison has gathered together into a 1,000-year epic the sagas of all those serendipitous seamen who set sail with visions of Cathay or a Northwest Passage-or at least a new fishing ground-and instead bumped into places like Greenland, Labrador and finally the rest of North America. The familiar names are here: Leif Ericsson, discovering his mysterious Vinland around 1000 (Morison would like to believe it was Newfoundland); John Cabot, who sought a short cut to the Indies...
...perfect hero-the perfect mariner. He admires the seagoing sophisticates, like Sir Humfry Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh, who, he quotes, also made "voyages of the mind." But he loves the men who were professional sailors first and last. Of Sir Martin Frobisher, who tried three times for a Northwest Passage, he writes: "A very great seaman indeed." There is no higher praise in the Morison lexicon...