Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Travel with me now, down a little lower on the back of your Bursars card, yes, the sacroiliac region--where the signature is. Start rubbing. Rub hard!!! Harder!!! That's it... You see it? What's the opposite of "firmament," in the biblical sense? You got it--VOID. All over where your signature used to be. VOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOIDVOID etc. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Everybody should rub their signatures off their Bursars cards, and see how long it takes for anybody to notice. A couple of years, I bet. And by then you'll almost be out of Law School...
...rabies and ringworm, which are directly transmissible from animals to people. Tufts University has been successful in obtaining $10 million in federal funds to build the first veterinary school in New England. Unlike any other professional school in the country, it would enlist the participation of each of the region's six state governments in collaboration with this university...
...E.L.F.) controls much of the land near the Red Sea coast, while the 15,000-man Eritrean People's Liberation Front (E.P.L.F.) rampages through western Eritrea. Five thousand guerrillas of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Popular Liberation Forces (E.L.F.-P.L.F.) are fighting in the province's north central region. Variously supported by such Arab states as Syria, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, the guerrillas would doubtless fall to fighting among themselves were they not determined first to defeat the Ethiopians. Mengistu's troops still hold the Eritrean capital of Asmara, but they can only resupply...
...geographic and physical time; the shorter time span of cities and societies; the history of political events, "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs." Striking insights emerge. Europe is not an entity; it is the physical sea that gives the region unity. Reversing the 19th century preoccupation with northern Europe, Braudel turns the globe upside down. Africa immediately looms large, overshadowing tiny Europe. The central struggle and axis in the Mediterranean is not north and south but east and west-the Spanish and Ottoman empires caught in endless "cultural conflict...
Citing the "considerable danger to adjacent countries," a draft resolution sponsored by WHO director Dr. Halfdan Mahler stressed the need for immediate action to eradicate the last known region in which the disease is still a threat...