Word: northwest
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Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities. Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...
...Heavy MOSQUITO INFESTATIONS are expected this June in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Great Lakes, Southeast and New England regions. The winter's wet and wacky weather...
Mildbrandt was probably driving to a fish pond in the Fitchburg area, northwest of Boston, where he conducted his thesis research, said one of his two Somerville roommates, Wendy Weston...
...anarchist convictions. His truck used to have ED KIENHOLZ--EXPERT painted on the door. You might not trust Roy Lichtenstein to frame a shed or Jasper Johns to re-weld a railing, but Kienholz was doing that stuff since childhood. He was brought up on a farm in the Northwest, near Fairfield, Washington. He could fix anything, combine anything, so that it worked. But as an artist he was entirely self-taught, and he could neither draw well nor paint convincingly on a flat surface...
...Tongass, limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate sensative wetlands areas, and kept several species off the Endangered Species list. The President needed to take a stand to appease "green" voters, irate at his decision to allow logging in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest (a change of policy Clinton has called "a mistake"). White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said the President will sign the bill when it reaches his desk, probably sometime today...