Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human explosion poses staggering problems for the nine nations-and for the U.S. as their Alianza partner. Almost half of the region's population are under 15 years of age, children who must be educated and trained for jobs, which must then be found for them. In Brazil, despite all efforts to build more schools, only half the children are getting a grade school education, only 6% high school training. Concludes the Population Reference Bureau: "Until a new 'vital balance' is achieved-a low birth rate balancing a low death rate-economic progress and better living conditions...
...northern end of the New York turnpike can be abandoned at any point from Albany to Buffalo for U.S. 20, which wanders through the Finger Lakes region, or at Weedsport, N.Y., for Route 31, which follows the Erie Canal...
Rigid but Sore-Free. It was sheer good fortune that the broken vertebrae were in the lumbar region and did not damage the end of the spinal cord-a far less serious situation than if they had been in the cervical or thoracic areas, where the cord might have been severed by dislocation of the bones. A break of any of the cervical vertebrae could have paralyzed Teddy's body from the neck down, while a fracture of any of the twelve thoracic vertebrae might well have paralyzed his trunk or legs...
...explained that the 3700-acre Harvard Black Rock Forest is "remarkable for its hardwoods characteristic of the middle Appalachian region and important for the study of silviculture and conservation practices...
Save Your General! This had also been the frustrating pattern farther north, in the Kivu region, where for weeks, shouting, spear-waving rebels had threatened Bukavu, the biggest town (pop. 33,500) of the eastern Congo. Government troops clearly had the weapons and the manpower to deal harshly with the marauders; yet each time the army units tried to push down the Ruzizi Valley toward the terrorist headquarters at Uvira, they scattered in fright at the first sight of a rebel band. It took the T-28s-and the presence of Army Commander General Joseph Mobutu himself-to rally...