Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If one were to do the senseless thing--to take the path of least resistance, to give it all up for the void--it is easy to see why one might choose to go by leaping from the cliffs at Point Fermin. There is not much in the way of...
DENGUE FEVER. The coastal mountain ranges of Costa Rica had long confined dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease accompanied by incapacitating bone pain, to the country's Pacific shore. But in 1995 rising temperatures allowed Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to breach the coastal barrier and invade the rest of the country...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A federal transportation board approved the formation of the country's largest railroad company Wednesday despite opponents' claims that the merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific would force out competition in the 25 states the two railroads serve. With the completion of the deal, just two railroads...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A federal transportation board approved the formation of the country's largest railroad company Wednesday despite opponents' claims that the merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific would force out competition in the 25 states the two railroads serve. With the completion of the deal, just two railroads...
It's only April, but already the steamy air hints of the long, hot summer and the big, nasty mosquitoes ahead. A Union Pacific freight train rumbles and clanks along the adjacent railroad tracks--a tortoise to the hares inside Baylor Track Stadium, located in the deceptively named Beverly Hills...