Word: suburb
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...value of the U.N. mission and will sign up again after his six-month tour ends. "If we left, nobody would take care of [the civilians]," he says. He has been stationed at the airport, but is happy that he will soon be assigned to a nearby suburb, where he will have more contact with the locals. Since his father is from Croatia, Itric knows some Serbo-Croatian and can communicate with them. "I saw this country three years ago, peaceful and united, and I wanted to come back and see what it is like now," Itric says...
Zelleke and his family live in a house in Bole,an upper-class suburb of the capital of AddisAbaba, near the airport...
...pair of veteran bicycles departed by bike from Cooper City, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, and traveled continuously, with only rest stops for sleep and a quick stop in New York City. On the way, they traveled through Hermosa Beach, Fla., Savannah, Ga., Charleston, S.C., Kitty Hawk, N.C. and Cape...
Among them were Virginia McMartin, her daughter Peggy and two grown grandchildren, all of whom worked at McMartin's preschool in a Los Angeles suburb, which became the subject of the longest and costliest trial in American history. The case ended in 1990 with no convictions on any of the 65 criminal counts. Now the family's seven-year legal ordeal is the subject of Indictment: The McMartin Trial, a gripping-though excessively pious-TV movie that will make its debut May 20 on hbo. Conceived and scripted by veteran screenwriter Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Atlanta Child Murders...
...special, filmed on location, takes Herschbach to a suburb of Stockholm to visit the home and recount the achievements of chemist Alfred Nobel, who developed nitroglycerine, the active ingredient in dynamite...