Word: southern
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...Michigan: A commuter airplane carrying 29 passengers and crew crashed in rural southern Michigan Thursday about 18 miles from Detroit Metro Airport. Delta ComAir Flight 3272 crashed and burned in Monroe County in an open field in cold and snowy conditions. Authorities do not believe any aboard survived the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate the incident. Eyewitnesses say the plane dipped while in flight, then began spiraling before hitting the ground at a very steep angle. The plane, a Embraer 120 model turboprop, appeared to be thoroughly destroyed. The flight originated in Cincinnati...
...parents passionately demonstrated against the civil rights violations in Vietnam; we heatedly protest the lack of flaky tuna in the Annenberg salad bar. Our parents traveled to Birmingham and Mobile, joining with southern blacks to challenge segregation and discrimination; we bravely venture to the Malkin Athletic Center and demand that the school provide improved athletic facilities. Obviously, the issues that confront our lives here at Harvard are significant. However, beyond extending dinner hours or increasing the celerity of e-mail lies an international arena full of pressing humanitarian concerns. We are often so involved with our lives here on campus...
...Svein Harald Folleraas, deputy mayor of the southern Norweigen village of Songdalen, who used the power of speech to vanquish his adversary when he was charged by an angry moose...
...mudslides continue to plague the state, even with the easing of the week-long deluge of rain and snow. Flood warnings are still in effect for 11 rivers statewide. Oregon is about the only state where matters appear to be improving. But I-5 is still closed in southern Oregon and 40,000 customers remain without long-distance telephone service. Rains are supposed to begin slowing throughout much of the region. But the Cascade and Sierra mountain ranges can expect up to another 10 inches of snow before the storm subsides...
...family initially settled in a black neighborhood of central Los Angeles, not far from the University of Southern California, where Paul Ho pursued a master's degree in engineering. A translator for U.S. troops in China during World War II, he instructed his wife that their sons were to stick to Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese and not learn English until they got to America for a better chance of speaking it without an accent. As Sonia Ho recalls in careful but imperfect English, "When we first come to U.S., we don't know any words. David would come home from...