Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months on end, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. In the cold and dark, plants and animals perished. Compelling evidence of such cataclysms was revealed last summer: scientists confirmed that a giant crater, 176 km (110 miles) across, discovered under the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was the likely impact point of a huge object, probably a comet, believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other forms of life 65 million years...
...Asia's four rapidly developing "Little Dragons" -- along with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong -- Singapore is the smallest and in some ways the most successful. The former British colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula only achieved full independence in 1965, yet it boasts Asia's highest living standard after Japan, an average per capita income of $15,000 (about the same as the U.S.) and by far the world's highest per capita cache of foreign reserves...
...rather take our own views on faith, are we not degenerating to the same level of dogmatism of which the Peninsula is guilty...
...choice woman, I encourage those with a view contrary to the Peninsula's to take a look at this issue. Really, it won't bite. The greatest risk you run is that of receiving a paper cut. It certainly won't call into question any beliefs that are based on any rational foundation...
...argue about what it says and doesn't say, instead of about the fact that this stuff was said. Let's approach this debate with confidence instead of fear. Let's use our heads, if for no other reason than to differentiate ourselves from Peninsula. Melissa E. McSherry...