Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sverdlovsk, the provincial city in the Urals where the Bolsheviks assassinated Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family in 1918. It is also the place where Boris Yeltsin rose to power as a party boss: he was there in 1979 when a leak from a biological-warfare plant released a cloud of deadly anthrax virus that killed 64 people...
...Average WhiteBand, Earth Wind and Fire, and Billy Preston.Preston's "Outta-Space," the second track on thisalbum, features a thick funk groove underneathPreston's organ and key work. Oh yeah, there's agreat instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's"Whole Lotta Love" with King Curtis screaming outRobert Plant's vocal line on his sax, producing aprophetic marriage of funk/soul orchestrationswith heavy metal...
Workers are currently cutting down trees but plan to plant between 50 and 70 new trees in time for Commencement. The trees do not grow well in the summer heat, Spiegelman added...
...recycled stock. "In the past," says Refkin, "there simply was not enough recycled paper available to do this. But because we are such a large buyer, we were able to help create a significant supply by asking for it." A few months ago, Refkin helped dedicate a new recycling plant in Duluth, Minnesota, that will be turning out some of the pulp used in TIME. "The best part," he says, "is that this means all those tons of paper will not have to be added to landfills...
...additional 100,000 officers over five years. But after that money runs out, financially strapped communities may be forced to fire their new cops. What's needed, then, is a rejiggering. The crime bill's many pork-barrel provisions, like the one that would combat the introduction of "nonindigenous plant and animal species" into Hawaii, should be junked. Every available dollar should go for more cops -- forever...