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Initiated five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World on Columbus Day 1992, project SETI pledged a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Being a United States citizen since 1988 and born in Calcutta in 1940, author Bharati Mukherjee has lived in England and Canada, and first came to the United States in 1961 to study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.
Ms. Chambers is among the forecasters who predict that the rate of addition to arable lands will drop while those of loss rise.
Archaeologists in Ireland believe that a recently discovered chalice, which dates from the eighth century, was probably buried to keep from being stolen by invaders.
Some buildings that were destroyed and heavily damaged in the earthquake last year were constructed in violation of the city's building code.
Like Rousseau, Tolstoi rebelled against the unnatural complexity of human relations in modem society.
According to some economists,the July decrease in unemployment so that it was the lowest in two years suggests that the gradual improvement in the job market is continuing.
Delighted by the reported earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal year, it was decided by the company manager to give her staff a raise.