Word: regional
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Does Anyone Know What Time It Is?:Ten members of the Harvard men's tennis team will be competing in the Rolex Region One Individual Competition in Princeton, N.J., which begins Wednesday...
...Crimson, which captured the ITCA Region One team competition with a 5-4 upset of West Virginia in the finals two weeks ago, qualified six players for the main draw--Michael Zimmerman, Mike Shyjan, Derek Brown, Albert Chang, Mark Leschly and Jon Cardi...
Earlier in the year, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported an "encounter" between a milkmaid in the region of Perm and a cosmic creature that looked like a man but was "taller than average with shorter legs." Last week the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda declared that not only had an Abominable Snowman been caught stealing apples in the Saratov region but researchers had "registered the influence of energies" at a site in Perm, leading a geologist to conclude that they had discovered a landing field for flying saucers. The same story transcribed a telepathic discourse between Pavel Mukhortov, a journalist from...
...month-old tribal feud between the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan initially centered on Nagorno-Karabakh, a region within Azerbaijan that contains a majority of ethnic Armenians. Moscow sought to defuse the issue by assuming direct rule of Nagorno-Karabakh, where it has stationed 4,500 troops. But the dispute, which has so far claimed more than 100 lives, will not go away. On the contrary, it has escalated into something very close to civil war. In both republics ferocious animosities generated by the rivalries have brought to the fore nationalist groups threatening secession. Indeed, traveling between the two republics...
Using the new knowledge of the microcosm -- the invisible region populated by protons, electrons and other subatomic particles -- computer-chip manufacturers have been able to pack more and more information (and value) onto slivers of silicon whose material content represents less than 1% of their total expense. As chips are incorporated into everything from furnaces to cars, the value of these products resides increasingly in the "intelligence" stored in their electronic components. In the future, industrial might will depend less on mass production and more on the creative use of information technology. Gilder calls this phenomenon the "overthrow of matter...