Word: riversing
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After capturing Leipzig, the U.S. First Army drew to a halt along the Mulde River, a tributary of the Elbe, Lieut. Albert Kotzebue of the 273rd Infantry Regiment was told to take 35 men and explore the narrow strip of land between the two rivers to see if he could...
Early on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, named for the pilot's mother, cut east to west across the rivers of Hiroshima, opened its hatches, and an atom bomb fell free. From that moment to this, nothing has ever been the same in the world. The...
Most of Huizenga's stories involve Glenn Ganges, a blank-looking suburbanite in the 18 to 35 year-old range with two dots for eyes and a preference for three-quarter length baseball T-shirts, sans logo. Page one of the first issue introduces him to us in a wordless...
To Nam, a Soviet-trained engineer, his is the logical grand plan for a landlocked country blessed with mountains, rivers?and little else. "We don't want to be such a poor country anymore," Nam says. "We want to change." This week, the World Bank will take a step to...
Such big dreams will inevitably come at a cost. Hydropower, once touted as cheap, clean energy, has fallen out of favor in recent years. In 2000, a report by the World Commission on Dams found that in developing countries the damage to communities and environment from building dams was rarely...