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Hundreds of workers from nearby towns showed up to help, said officials in Guasave, near the crash site 730 miles northwest of Mexico City...
Another centennial find is the reconstructed Fort Union Trading Post, built in 1829, near the confluence of the strategic Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in the northwest corner of North Dakota. Fort Union served as a linchpin in John Jacob Astor's lucrative beaver-fur and buffalo trade with the Assiniboin, Crow and Blackfeet Indians. In its halcyon days, which lasted a quarter- century, the post dominated the upper Missouri from behind an elegant, whitewashed palisade. Annual steamboats brought artists and ethnologists. The bourgeois, or superintendent, maintained a splendid table, and French wine flowed in an imposing residence topped with...
...matter how safe the seat, it cannot help a youngster sitting on an adult's lap. "A small child sitting unrestrained on a plane becomes a little missile when the aircraft hits severe turbulence," observes Northwest Airlines spokesman Bob Gibbons. Turbulence of the kind that recently jolted a Miami-bound American Airlines jet and injured 45 people poses more of a hazard to the average traveler than does the possibility of a crash...
...seven frustrating years, law-enforcement officials in the Pacific Northwest have combed the region for the mysterious Green River killer, so named because many of his victims were found near the Green River in King County, Wash. Between 1982 and 1984, when the murder spree appears to have ended, the shadowy killer may have snuffed out the lives of 48 women, most of them drifters or prostitutes, who were stabbed or strangled. After committing more than $15 million and as many as 55 officers to one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history, police have finally identified a "viable suspect...
...eerily similar to those surrounding Theodore Bundy, the serial killer who was executed in Florida in January. Bundy and Stevens were both enrolled as students at the University of Washington; Bundy was a senior while Stevens was a freshman. Bundy was also a former law student in the Northwest who had a fixation on police badges. And both men were avid consumers of pornography...