Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the government says it's going to run something up the flagpole, it's not kidding. For a small charge, you can become the proud owner of a U.S. flag that has flown over the Capitol, along with an appropriate certificate, by sending a request to your favorite Senator...
This story is not about the Politburo in Beijing or even the thousands of dissidents locked away in jails. It is a tale of ordinary people in three regions, no more but also no less representative of the "real" China. While communism and democracy form the two poles of the...
This Thursday will mark the 111th celebration of May Day in the United States. Not the festival of May poles and dancing but the holiday of red flags, clenched fists, and the spilled blood of the working class. Some call it International Workers' Holiday, and one labor giant once described...
Jupiter's Io and Neptune's Triton could also prove surprising. Though Io appears largely dehydrated, planetologists don't rule out the possibility of subsurface water, particularly since they think that ordinary steam might provide some of the propulsive muscle behind the moon's volcanoes. Triton presents a greater organic...
Just when the last heaps of snow were melting into little puddles and students were playing with frisbees and dogs in the Yard, barriers went up: white lines with poles that warn students to keep off the grass as it is reseeded and blue-green paint that some first-years...