Word: across
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...nearby Bridge of the Americas across thePanama Canal was open...
...flipping through the Crimson recently when I came across a lengthy article, "Political Debate Sparks Introspection at PBHA...
Most of all, it requires international cooperation on an unprecedented scale. No nation can cordon itself off from the effects of its neighbors' pollution. Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl swept across most of the European continent. Canadian lakes are being poisoned by the belchings of U.S. smokestacks. The torching of Brazil's tropical forests each year accounts for some 6% of all the CO2 that is pumped into the atmosphere. Deforestation in Haiti and drought in Africa have prompted large cross-border refugee movements -- just a foretaste, perhaps, of the mass migrations that could result if runaway population growth outstrips world...
Fifteen TIME journalists met with five experts on European affairs in Brussels last week to discuss the changes sweeping across the East bloc. "The situation is so volatile that even journalists have trouble keeping up," says assistant managing editor Karsten Prager, who originally scheduled the one-day session for January but then decided that sooner would be better than later. "The conference helped establish some sense of where things might be heading...
...status, these men had a more than usually powerful need to assert their manhood through deadly exertion. Glory is at its best when it shows their proud embrace of 19th century warfare at its most brutal. Director Edward Zwick graphically demonstrates the absurdity of lines of soldiers slowly advancing across open ground, shoulder to shoulder, in the face of withering rifle volleys and horrendous cannonade. The fact that the 54th finally achieves respect (and opens the way for other black soldiers) only by losing half its number in a foredoomed assault on an impregnable fortress underscores this terrible and brutal...