Word: peninsulas
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...Bissell lacked the clothing and accent that I typically look for in a Yooper—that is, someone from the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan...
...contrast, the 2004 outbreak--also a low-pathogenic strain of H7N2, which struck on the Delmarva Peninsula--was discovered right away, and both the states and the industry jumped into gear, euthanizing flocks, setting up quarantines and compensating farmers for their downed birds. "You had guys from Mountaire Farms and Perdue Farms working side by side," says Chisholm. "That's unusual because this is a competitive business." The quick response limited damage to just three farms...
...Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il, last week went largely unnoticed. But although many think that the North Korea crisis has passed because all six parties announced last September that they had reached a preliminary agreement, the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula is far from settled. No progress has been made in carrying out the agreement, and North Korea has actually pulled out of the talks, demanding that the US end its financial sanctions against alleged North Korean counterfeiting operations as a condition for a return to negotiation...
...United States and its allies, it is time to reevaluate their North Korea strategy if they seriously wish to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. The current approach has yielded little progress and has only given the North Koreans more time and more negotiation leverage. Instead, the US must realize that multilateral venues are not enough; to bring a peaceful solution, the Bush administration needs to be the principal actor in dealing with Kim Jong Il and take an active role uniting the other parties under common goals and tactics. Anything short of vigorous leadership will render the 2005 tentative agreement...
...evocations of international camaraderie, the Olympics are a lot about national pride. And so, beyond Dante, the peninsula trotted out stars to tout its culture: Giorgio Armani designing costumes; Sophia Loren carrying the Olympic flag; supermodel Carla Bruni slinking in with the Italian flag; Luciano Pavarotti singing Puccini's Nessun Dorma (Nobody Sleeps) from Turandot; Eva Herzigova (a Czech-born resident of Torino) starring as Botticelli's Venus on a half shell. A Ferrari roared onstage, the speakers blared the theme from Rocky (Stallone! The Italian Stallion!), and suddenly, after a magnificent dove formation by acrobats on gossamer thread, there...