Word: notes
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...Preliminary numbers. Note: 'North America' includes Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and Canada. 'Other' includes Oceania. Source: Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service...
Last week that deluge came--and it wrought what may have been Latin America's deadliest natural disaster of the 1900s, a grim closing note to the continent's century. Fewer than 2,000 bodies had been recovered as of late last week, and a reliable death toll was impossible to calculate as soldiers and rescue workers continued digging near the northern coastal town of La Guaira, just across Mount Avila from Caracas. Still, officials said the toll would certainly surpass 5,000 and could even reach 30,000. "There are bodies in the sea, under mud, everywhere," said President...
...anything of note in the 20th century, you've been celebrated this year. But we've found a few who managed to go unheralded. These are folks whose inventions are used every day but whose names, unfairly, are not. Herewith, the last unsung heroes of the 1900s...
...hard to compare the influence of statesmen with that of scientists. Nevertheless, we can note that there are certain eras that were most defined by their politics, others by their culture, and others by their scientific advances...
...toys, diapers and medical supplies, to the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in nearby Wilmington, Del. They demanded that Steven, a frequent patient there for years, be admitted, and then, while the receptionist went to get a nurse, the two drove off, leaving their son behind with a note saying they could no longer care...