Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hurricane Georges rampaged through the Caribbean, Maldonado spent last week worrying about her family back home in Trujilllo Alto, Puerto Rico...
...Although Puerto Rico wasn't hit as badly as the Dominican Republic, where the storm last week killed 125 people, the region around Maldonado's home was decimated...
According to the Harvard Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Web page (http://mc.harvard.edu/seti/), the search first began in 1978 with scientists listening to signals transmitted from a 1,000-foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico...
Benzan, the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, is Latino, but also considers himself black...
...same way flight controllers look for commercial airliners: with radar? Realizing that extremely powerful radar would be needed to bounce a signal off so distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that the power of the returned signal would be about a billionth of a watt...