Word: regionalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team is looking forward to meeting the best runners in the region on Friday as they run in the IC4A Championships, also at Franklin Park...
...There was a sense in the Business School that Harvard's contacts in the region were extensive and could be built on," says Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth. Coatsworth is also director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
Although unsuspected at the time, these two seemingly unconnected events presaged an alarming encephalitis epidemic. By last week lab tests revealed that the disease had stricken 36 people in metropolitan New York and caused at least five deaths in the region. The tests also provided the first clues in what became a fascinating medical-detective story about a virus never before seen...
...while, the epidemic was spreading. Hundreds of dead crows were turning up in the metropolitan region, and cases of the disease in humans were reported elsewhere in the city and suburbs. Using trucks and choppers, the city loosed clouds of pesticide in the middle of the night, to the distress of many residents. Nearby towns quickly followed suit...
...evidence comes from a cave in the Ardeche region of southeastern France, overlooking the Rhone River, where archaeologist Alban Defleur of Marseilles' Universite de la Mediterranee discovered 78 Neanderthal bones about 100,000 years old. They were from at least six individuals--two adults, two teenagers and two six- or seven-year-olds. Like the deer bones with which they were intermingled, most bore unmistakable signs of deliberate butchery...