Word: pacificism
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Thomas Myles, who graduated from the College in 1937 and the Law School in 1940, left Harvard at a time when nations were being ravaged by the Second World War. After training at Fort Benning, he was sent to serve in the Pacific theater.
Texaco completed its pipeline from the rain forest to the Pacific coast of Ecuador in 1972. From 1972 to 1989, 1.4 billion barrels of oil passed through the pipeline. Over those 17 years, 27 spills occurred, releasing an estimated 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into one of the world...
But a little more than a week ago, the grand promenade to Mars turned into a near Earth lob shot, when a booster malfunction sent the spacecraft plummeting back to Earth shortly after its launch. For a time it looked as if the craft was going to hit Australia, endangering...
Are we in for another nasty winter? It's still autumn, but last week a "pineapple express" of soggy Pacific air dumped 2 ft. of snow and drenching rainfall over large portions of the Northwest. The previous week, unseasonably cold air barreling across the Great Lakes picked up moisture and...
The Russian Mars probe is falling! The Russian Mars probe is falling! The prospect of the stricken plutonium-powered spacecraft's raining down on Down Under brought back memories of the U.S. Skylab's shower of pieces over the area in 1979 and threatened to overshadow President Clinton's visit...