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Fell says the American Indian civilization in the Southwest was overtaken between A.D. 1100 and 1200 by the "Ab" people. The word "Ab" means "Apache" in modern Pima, one of the tribes which shared the Southwestern culture called Hohokam and spoke in the near-universal tongue of North American at that time--Iberic, Fell said...
Marquette Park in southwestern Chicago is one of the city's largest green spaces-a 321-acre expanse of grassy meadows, tennis courts, fishing lagoons and a golf course. Surrounding the park is a white "ethnic" community of 11,000 Lithuanian, Irish and Polish families-a vigorous old neighborhood that has tenaciously barred blacks and preserved itself as one of the city's last desirable white areas...
...Rome, and, as the Manchester Guardian once sniffed, "Secretary to the British Academy when he's not on television"; in Leatherhead, England. Wheeler supervised excavations in the Indus Valley of India and Pakistan and over a wide area of Roman Britain. He believed in King Arthur, and in southwestern England his diggers unearthed bits of pottery and knives they thought came from Camelot...
...males of the same species for miles around. Other pheromones identify members of a colony, trigger fight or flight reactions, or are used to mark a path toward food sources. At Beltsville, Jacobson has identified the sex pheromones of the American cockroach. Oriental fruit fly, Mediterranean fruit fly and southwestern pine tip moth. Synthetic forms of such chemicals could, if spread in large quantities over an insect-infested field, so confuse male insects that they might never find females and mate with them...
Very little is pretty about Soweto, not even the name (which rhymes with potato). It derives from no tribal dialect but from "southwestern township," its location, eight miles southwest of the larger white city. Soweto is actually a black bedroom community for Johannesburg. Most of the adults commute daily aboard crowded, segregated trains to jobs in the city. Few whites return the visits. To enter Soweto, a white person must obtain a special permit good only for daylight hours, a day at a time...