Word: southern
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...panelists--paleontologist Richard Leakey, the director of Kenya's Wildlife Services, and Richard Garstang of the Endangered Wildlife Trust of Southern Africa--disagreed over the role of ivory trading. While the Kenyan elephant population is dangerously low, Garstang said, elephant overpopulation in South Africa makes that government's policy of state-run population control and ivory trading an appropriate solution...
Many of the new migrants are young, middle-class families from Los Angeles and Orange County. According to University of Southern California geographer Thomas Jablonsky, their flight represents the first net "out migration" of this trendsetting group in the state's history. They are relatively skilled and prosperous, and mobile enough to escape Southern California's well- advertised problems of traffic, smog and crime. Many are so-called equity emigres who cash in on their California houses to acquire equivalent property near Puget Sound at literally half the price. Last month's Northern California earthquake, however, has had little impact...
...simple life on one income. I wanted to be June Cleaver; you know, 'Honey, I'm ho-ome!' " But they soon became disillusioned by the surprisingly high cost of living -- including what they call "sneak taxes" on housing, autos and services -- and convinced that opportunity knocks louder back in Southern California. "I'd love to take our house and lake with us, but I can't wait to get back to the whole Southern California scene," Terry Maxwell said as she left last month...
Stalin won outright annexation of parts of eastern Poland; the Poles were compensated with parts of easternmost Germany. In the Far East the Soviets were secretly awarded the Japanese Kurile Islands and the southern part of Sakhalin Island, an arrangement disclosed after Japan's defeat...
...Virginia contest focused on abortion asmuch as race, with Wilder emphasizing hispro-choice views in an attempt to downplay hisrace with the voters of the Southern state. Theissue seemed to spill over to the lieutenantgovernor's race, as well, as pro-choice DemocratDon Beyer defied the pre-election polls to score avictory...