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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town reared up in horror. Police, state troopers, FBI agents and thousands of volunteers fanned out through the 515-sq.-mi. county, searching for the car, the kids, any clue at all. Helicopters with heat-seeking devices combed through the Uwharrie National Forest after someone reported hearing a child crying in the forest...
...course of two weeks, these new tactics have served the Bosnian government well: for the first time in 31 months of war, they are poking through the overextended lines of the Bosnian Serb army. Government forces have retaken 60 sq. mi. of territory from the Serbs near Bihac in the north, made significant gains around strategic Mount Igman overlooking the capital of Sarajevo and recaptured the town of Kupres and perhaps an additional 40 sq. mi. in central Bosnia...
...livestock of prospering nations as they move to improve their diets. "The market for American farming has been and will be meat, milk and eggs, and the feeds with which to produce them." If American agriculture fails to seize this opportunity, says Avery, then in 50 years, 40 million sq. mi. of the globe's remaining wildlife habitat may be plowed up in a desperate race against hunger...
...scored one of their most important military victories to date against the Bosnian Serbs with a surprise attack that pushed the Serbs from strategic positions surrounding Bihac in northwestern Bosnia. On Saturday government forces surrounded the village of Bosanska Krupa, trapping hundreds of Serb soldiers. The Bosnians captured 100 sq. mi. of territory as well as several tanks and mortars, forcing some 10,000 Bosnian Serbs to flee...
Along Harlem's main thoroughfare, 125th Street, business is booming, a function of indigenous forces mostly but of Clinton's policies as well. The vacancy rate for commercial property is less than 2%, and space is renting for more than $30 per sq. ft., about the same as in midtown Manhattan, an astounding surge. New stores will soon dot the cross streets, and nearby housing units are being rehabilitated. The private investment responsible for most of this growth is following rising incomes and the return of better-off families. Perhaps most important is the anticipated designation of the area...