Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dunphy has front-loaded his schedule in an attempt to snatch some early national recognition, like Princeton did two years ago. The Quakers open against Kentucky at the Preseason NIT, in a field that also includes Arizona, Utah and Maryland. Penn will travel to Kansas...
Fresh off this impressive drubbing of Princeton, Pennsylvania will travel to Harvard this weekend to take on the Crimson at The Stadium...
...security services always ruthlessly stamp out dissent. The CIA still believes Saddam will be eliminated by someone in his inner circle, but intelligence agents don't see how a "silver bullet" would ever get close to him. He has multiple layers of security around him, never announces his travel plans ahead of time, sleeps in a different bed every night and uses doubles for public events and even some private meetings...
...wire the bombs together. People travel rapidly by airplane, carrying diseases with them as they fly. The human species has become a biological Internet with fast connections. The bionet will only get faster in the next century--that is, more people will travel by air more often, increasing the speed at which diseases move. If a tropical megacity gets hit with a new virus, New York City and Los Angeles will see it days or weeks later...
...Zhenbing in China in 1996, near the end of a six-year journey around the world to write a book about humanity's environmental future. A 30-year-old economics professor who was liked on sight by virtually everyone he met, Zhenbing was my interpreter during five weeks of travel throughout China. A born storyteller, he often recalled his childhood in a tiny village northwest of Beijing. Like most Chinese peasants of that era, Zhenbing's parents were too poor to buy coal. Instead, in a climate like Boston's, where winter temperatures often plunged below zero, they burned dried...