Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world has stood by silently for the past year while the Serbian army has massacred Albanian civilians in the province of Kosovo. Detailed accounts of the horrific bloodshed, accompanied by graphic photographs, have been proliferated over the Web. Daily news reports from the region have been bounced off satellites and beamed into our living rooms. But, like countless generations before us facing similar tragedies, we have not answered the cry of a persecuted people...
...fall tennis season is mostly a series of individual tournaments where college players are on their own. But the ECAC Tournament taking place Friday through Monday in Princeton, N.J., is a major team tournament at the beginning of this fall season. At stake is a spot representing the region in the NCAA Indoor Tournacment and the top regional ranking once the spring season begins...
...Deepness, I traipse along the western edge of central California, in the region called Big Sur, which begins in the south with William Randolph Hearst's monument to the search for happiness, at San Simeon, and extends 90 miles north to Carmel. Earle has enlarged our purview to include the Monterey Bay area 12 miles farther northwest, so that we are able to look at Elkhorn Slough off Moss Landing and Monterey Canyon. This underwater chasm, as huge as the Grand Canyon, reaches out 45 nautical miles to the foot of the continental slope, and down...
...environmentalist in her cites the interdependency of sea and land. The redwoods in the region not only collect the moisture that comes to them as fog, but they also create a suitable habitat for other life. "Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss," she says. "If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city...
...strike the Serbs in Kosovo, but it's also giving President Slobodan Milosevic a wide escape route. Hoping to force a cease-fire without actually firing a shot, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke shuttled between Belgrade and Kosovo Tuesday promoting a deal in which negotiations over the region's final political status are deferred for three years...