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...tropics and subtropics find that they can no longer sustain their livelihood, the direction to move will be pole-ward, away from the tropics and subtropics. Now you run into some pretty skinny land areas as you go south, so the migration paths of environmental refugees will be northward...
With Massachusetts polls showing Gore and U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 safe in their election bids, the Harvard Democrats turned their eyes northward...
...already won, it seemed in October, when I returned as a correspondent for TIME. General Douglas MacArthur's amphibious landing at Inchon had succeeded brilliantly. The North Korean invaders, encircled from behind, had been taken prisoner by the tens of thousands. But then, as MacArthur drove northward toward the Chinese border, dividing his forces in a two-pronged offensive, Mao Zedong's "volunteers" had slipped unseen into the mountains between. Not until July 1953, after more dreadful bloodshed at places like Heartbreak Ridge and Pork Chop Hill, was the present armed truce established...
...Egyptian adventure deteriorated. The people of Cairo rose in general insurrection. Napoleon bombarded al-Azhar, the city's largest mosque, then sacked it and allowed his troops to run amok, killing men, women and children in the streets. The bloom was off the liberation. Napoleon sought glory northward, marching toward Syria. He took Jaffa. Four thousand prisoners, who had been promised their lives, were marched before Napoleon's tent; he asked peevishly, "What am I supposed to do with them?" They were herded to the beach and slaughtered in the surf...
...After the New Madrid earthquake in the early 19th century, the Mississippi River ran northward for a little while, and millions of Deep South squirrels, with one mind, began migrating - in one vast, crazed undulation - toward Kentucky...