Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wolves are coming back into the Moscow region," a friend remarked last week as we sat in a village just outside the city, watching one of the heavier snowfalls of the winter. "The local administration just west of here is sending out hunters to cull them...
...northern Germany. Sprinkled among the barns and silos are thousands of 100-ft.-tall towers topped by sleek, fiber-glass blades that whirl slowly in the breeze. Functioning as clean, trim powerhouses, these modern windmills turn even gentle currents of air into strong currents of electricity, energizing the region's businesses and homes without hurting the environment...
...spurt brought on by a 95% decline in the cost of these devices since the 1970s. Although the electricity they put out is still far more expensive than that produced by conventional generators, solar cells are the least expensive source of power for rural homes not connected to a region's electric grid. Further advances may make solar power an economically attractive option for many urban buildings within the next decade...
...over yet. "Albright is determinedly dancing around one obvious thing," says TIME New York Bureau Chief Marguerite Michaels, who watches the region. "The fighting in Rwanda and eastern Congo, far from having ceased, is getting worse...
KIGALI, Rwanda: Suspected Hutu rebels attacked a Tutsi refugee camp with hand grenades, guns and machetes, killing more than 200 people and wounding 200 more in northwestern Rwanda Thursday. For a region that has undergone sweeping and hopeful changes in the last year, the massacre signals the return of an old scourge...