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...mixture does not work, partly because the historical and the personal plot lines that Vollmann imagines to be parallel simply are not. One of the former is the death in 1846 of Sir John Franklin and all the members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes...
...Great North-South-East-West Conference: Also known as the "Compass Eight," fine institutions like Eastern Ohio, Northwest Indiana and Southeastern Michigan State compete every year for the bragging rights to one of the nation's oldest trophies, the GNSEW's prestigious Little Brown Beer Bottle...
...Scientists have synthesized taxol, a promising anticancer drug normally derived from trees in the Pacific Northwest...
Though the Serbs began pulling their artillery, tanks and mortars down the icy roads around Sarajevo last week, it was not certain how many weapons were leaving or where they were going. Rather than stockpile them under U.N. guard, the Serbs might move them to Bihac in the northwest, for example, where Muslim-Serb battles have intensified in recent weeks, or to Bosnian-held Olovo, just north of Sarajevo. U.N. officials and diplomats spoke of "very significant withdrawals" from the capital region -- while Serb vehicles were seen heading north and south, perhaps toward other battle zones...
...major earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck near Los Angeles, killing 55 people and causing an estimated $15 billion to $30 billion in damage. The quake's epicenter was in a community northwest of L.A. in the densely populated San Fernando Valley. Across the city and its suburbs, houses collapsed, streets buckled and gas and water mains ruptured. Overpasses of three heavily traveled freeways fell in; repairing them may take a year or longer. More than 1,000 aftershocks occurred, and at week's end 20,000 displaced residents were sleeping in parks and on the streets...