Word: southern
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...causes a malformation of limbs and organs. (By his fourth birthday, David had had 17 operations.) Boorda served two tours of duty in Vietnam and worked his way up the ranks, commanding surface ships and serving in various Pentagon posts before being named chief of NATO's forces in Southern Europe in 1991. He was nominated by President Clinton to the top naval post in March 1994, when his predecessor, Admiral Frank Kelso II, had to retire early in response to criticism of his handling of the 1991 Tailhook sex-harassment episode. As the first enlisted man ever to rise...
...Vajpayee falls, the Front is ready, after hectic negotiating, to name its Prime Minister: H.D. Deve Gowda, chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, who was chosen because of his relative obscurity and presumed inoffensiveness to all the power brokers. If he gets in, the coalition that made him, having achieved its one common aim, is likely to break apart. And that could mean Indian voters will soon be lining up at the polls again...
...single supercontinent known as Pangaea. Because land animals could move and mate at will, dinosaurs from that era look pretty similar all over the world. But by the end of the Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago, continental drift had torn Pangaea into a northern and a southern half, Laurasia and Gondwana. At that point, dinosaurs in each hemisphere should have started evolving along divergent paths. The African dinosaurs should thus most closely resemble those found in South America...
...fossils are more than a million years old. Eschewing time machines and historical settings, both authors have opted to have modern paleoanthropologists come face to face with relict populations of early hominids in remote and unexplored corners of the world: the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan in Darnton's case, southern Kenya in Popescu...
...authors' characterization of Israel's presence in Southern Lebanon as an "occupation" is strongly misleading. Strictly speaking, Israel indeed occupies the region, yet the use of the term "occupation" implies long-term interest in settling the area, much as has been the criticism of Israel's ambivalent approach to the "occupied" West Bank. Yet unlike in that region, Israel has no designs on settling Southern Lebanon; it maintains a presence in the area strictly to ensure the security of its Northern citizens. Hence, the use of the phrase "legitimate act of resistance" is also unjustified. The Lebanese people...