Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CITY & REGION...
...PLEASE NOTE] "We've got a Sea World, and we're near a large Amish region...
...think you can make a very simple matrix. You have to look at the immensity of what is happening. I happen to believe, and argued so at the time, we should have done more in Rwanda. We get involved where the crime is huge, where it's in a region that affects our stability--the stability of Europe is something that has been essential to the U.S. for the last 200 years--and where there is an organization capable of dealing with it. Just because you can't act everywhere doesn't mean you don't act anywhere...
...meteorologists noted a startling accumulation of the supercell thunderstorms that spawn whirlwinds. By 4:45 they had issued their first tornado warning. Starting at 5:00 and continuing for 20 hours, a legion of twisters--more than 40, coming so fast that the exact count is uncertain--scourged the region. One, a behemoth originating near Chickasha, may be historic. Not for the width of its funnel--although at nearly a mile across, that was extraordinary--but a mobile Doppler radar from the University of Oklahoma clocked its peak wind speed at 318 m.p.h., which would make it the strongest wind...
...course, Waters lives in a region where good produce is abundant year-round. Elsewhere, eating by the Slow Food credo is not quite so easy. Sacrifice may be required--no arugula in January, for example, in climates where it does not grow then. Being gastronomically aware can also cost more; quality ingredients from small producers are usually expensive. But as David Auerbach, a professor at North Carolina State University at Raleigh, points out, "If we spent less on toys that don't give us real pleasure and more on good food, we'd feel better, and eventually prices would drop...