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...Mount Sinai is traditionally regarded as the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments...
...still as shallow as nine feet in parts, and 300 feet at its deepest; one fisherman's tale has it that a ship's crew was able to play baseball on a shoal after a storm. The Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current converge at the site and circulate a hearty brew of nutrients on which plankton thrive and proliferate. Fish in turn feed on the plankton and spawn seasonally in the shoals, coming from as far north as the Arctic, as far south as the Carolina coast...
Wacker said Harvard officials had set October 19 as the cutoff date for research but had been able to find an alternate dumping site in time to prevent any research shutdown...
...King and the state legislature after the Three Mile Island accident, held its first hearings October 10 and "is really in high gear now," Wilson said. The next session, open to all interested parties, is scheduled for December 14 and will cover the suitability of Plymouth for a nuclear site, the transportation of nuclear in the state, and the methods for communicating to the public after a hypothetical accident, Wilson said. "We've raised some hard questions that need addressing," said Wiltshire. "I'd hate to have a Three Mile Island every few years to keep people aware that...
...birthplace of O. Henry and the home of several of the nation's largest textile mills. But Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 144,000), has also been the site of bitter racial conflict, dating back to sit-ins at lunch counters in the early 1960s and a riot in 1969 at a predominantly black local college that left one student dead. Nothing in Greensboro's past, however, came close to what happened last week: a Shootout between Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Klan protesters in which four people were killed and nine were wounded. The city's mayor...