Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final excursion is scheduled to begin Monday at 3:24 a.m. E.D.T., with a tour along Hadley Rille, one of the many canyon-like features on the moon that have long puzzled scientists. Most experts now dismiss the idea that rilles were carved out by water, like the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, N. Mex., which they resemble; instead, the canyons may be the result of lava flows. To help settle the argument, the astronauts plan to drive part way down the slope, which begins at a relatively gentle incline of about 10°. As the going gets rougher...
...earth. Mexican officials report that at least 10,000 animals have died there since the disease hit the country earlier this year. A federal-state task force fighting the epidemic in Texas has already recorded 1,000 animal deaths, and has received reports that many are floating down the Rio Grande River...
...Humans can also contract equine encephalitis if they are bitten by the virus-carrying mosquitoes, and many people have developed the disease. Several thousand inhabitants of the northern Mexican town of Rio Verde have come down with the telltale, flu-like symptoms: headache, fever, aching bones, nausea and vomiting. In the border town of Brownsville, Texas, three children have been diagnosed as having the disease. Elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley, 36 people with similar symptoms have been admitted to hospitals. Their chances of recovery, however, are excellent. Venezuelan equine encephalitis is rarely fatal to humans; most recover from...
...seasons since, swaggering down the fairways, wearing gaudy red socks and a grin as wide as the Rio Grande, Trevino has captured the fancy of the fans?and the purses of the Professional Golfers' Association. Since that first U.S. Open triumph, he has won more money ($597,461) and finished among the top ten in more tournaments (79) than any other golfer on the tour. With official P.G.A. earnings of $196,000 so far this season?the $13,200 he won in the British Open is not included in P.G.A. money rankings?he is a cinch to break Billy Casper...
...companies there-and announced plans to spend $35.5 million of the extra money on a jet squadron. That will make Venezuela the sixth and -considering the cost-possibly the last Latin American country to acquire supersonic jets. And then? Nowadays, as one foreign military attache in Rio points out, everyone in Europe is pushing missiles...