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BISMARK, N.D.--After traveling almost 8900 miles, two dusty Porsche Carrera 4's rolled across the border into Tijuana, Mexico two Fridays ago, thereby setting a record for covering all of North America-Alaska, Canada, the lower 48, and Mexico--in less than a week. My name won't show up in any record books, but I spent 24 hours driving one of those cars from Spokane, Wash. to Bismarck...
Even if the economy does not continue its current record pace over the coming years, he said, Harvard is prepared to maintain its commitment to financial...
...Africa's post-independence history bristles with such tremendous human rights violations that it is easy to forget its long record of heroic struggle for those rights," said Kwesi Botchwey, director of Africa research and programs...
Both of Tennessee's current U.S. senators and five of its nine congressional representatives are Republicans. Don Sundquist, the state's Republican governor, won a second term in 1998 with a record 69 percent of the vote...
...current talks are being held to meet a deadline for finalizing the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrialized nations to dramatically reduce emissions from the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. Kyoto emerged out of concern that the planet's warming - 1998 was the hottest year on record, and 1999 wasn't far behind - will produce catastrophic climatic effects that will make recent "wild weather" patterns look mild by comparison...