Word: southeasterners
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Humans may be partly to blame. In 1977, according to one theory, Virginia's hunters felt there was a shortage of raccoons in the region. As a result, perhaps several thousand raccoons were imported both legally and illegally from Southeastern states, and some of those animals apparently harbored rabies. Since then, raccoon rabies has been moving outward from Virginia and West Virginia at a rate of 25 to 40 miles a year and has invaded all Northeastern states except Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island. In New York, which now leads the nation in animal-rabies cases (1,761 last year...
Archaeologists digging in southeastern Turkey have unearthed what appears to be the oldest piece of cloth ever found. The partly fossilized swatch measures 1 1/2 in. by 3 in., and was wrapped around the handle of a tool made from an antler. It's presumed to be linen, and it has been dated to about 7000 B.C., making it at least 500 years older than any other cloth previously discovered...
...letter to Gary, Kevorkian outlined the conditions of his "service." "First, I can help patients only in southeastern Michigan; and you have already stated willingness to travel. Second, the service cannot be performed in any rented facility because of potential legal difficulties. I'm sure you can understand the reason for this. Therefore, I must ask if you have any relative or friends in this area who could make a privately-owned domicile available for your use." He asked for Gary's medical history and for permission to contact his doctor. "I sympathize with your sad situation and wish that...
Some of those men were inmates back in 1970 when Whitley first started out at Angola as a classification officer. Armed with sociology and zoology degrees from Southeastern Louisiana University, he tried and failed to secure an appointment to the state police. Disappointed, he settled for a corrections job. After nine years at Angola, he moved to Louisiana's Hunt Correctional Center, where in 1983 he became The Man. "I never really had a desire to be a warden," he says. "I just kept being promoted up." (Sybil, his wife of 17 years, counters, "He says he's not ambitious...
...country. Stick a shovel into the ground at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked the sleepy Washington suburb of White Oak, Maryland, whose...