Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

washington _ the army said monday that it had no plans to reopen an investigation into an attack made at the end of the persian gulf war in 1991 by soldiers under the command of barry r. mccaffrey , the retired army general who is now president clinton 's drug-policy adviser .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the strategic reserve , established after organization of petroleum export countries -lrb- opec -rrb- oil embargoes in the early 1970s , has not been tapped since 1991 , during the persian gulf war .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

`` coalition aircraft pilots assigned to joint task force - southwest asia received cockpit indications that they were being targeted by a missile site , '' said navy lt. john o'neal , spokesman for the u.s. command , the joint military headquarters responsible for the persian gulf region .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the united states sent thousands of extra troops , plus warplanes and naval power , to the gulf before u.n. secretary-general kofi annan defused the situation in a trip to baghdad in february .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

just last month president clinton decided to cut the number of u.s. forces in the gulf from about 37,000 to around 20,000 , and on june 4 the air force announced it was pulling its f-117 stealth fighter-bombers out of the gulf area .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

france is part of the mission , though it did not join in the decision to expand the zone north from the 32nd to the 33rd parallel .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

persian gulf war veterans have a rate of general ill health at least twice as high as forces who stayed home or were sent to bosnia , according to a new study of british troops .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the study of 8,195 soldiers , sailors and pilots -- the first to compare gulf war veterans with troops who served in another hazardous conflict around the same time -- is the largest of symptoms to date .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

there was hardly any difference between the bosnia troops and men who served at the time of the gulf war but were not deployed .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

regardless of the ailment , however , vets who served in the persian gulf were about twice as likely to complain of it than the other two groups studied , the researchers said .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

`` the evidence is unequivocal that going to the gulf affects your health , '' said dr. simon wessely , one of the researchers from king 's college at the university of london .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the researchers do n't know why ailments were more common in gulf war vets , but said the study shows there is no single cause , either physical or psychological , and that attempts to look for a `` smoking gun '' will not succeed .


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the researchers also found that hazards of war -- ranging from using pesticides and seeing dead bodies to getting diesel fuel on your skin -- were linked to more symptoms , regardless of whether the men had served in the gulf or somewhere else .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the study did find a slight increase in ill health in those who had vaccines against biological threats such as anthrax or plague .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

receiving multiple vaccinations against routine infections also was linked to a modest increase in illness , but only in the persian gulf group and not in bosnia .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

in an editorial in the lancet , a scientist with the national institutes of health called the study one of the most definitive conducted to date and said it added weight to the argument that no unique `` gulf war syndrome '' exists .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

in his editorial , stephen e. straus , chief of the laboratory of clinical investigation at the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases , drew parallels between the ailments cited by gulf war vets and soldiers who fought in world war i .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

`` although the possibility of some still unappreciated environmental factor can not be dismissed entirely , '' he wrote , `` the gulf war seems to differ from others only in a quantitative sense and in the intensity of public discourse about it. ''


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but dr. robert haley , an epidemiologist at university of texas medical center who believes a particular `` gulf war syndrome '' exists , criticized the research .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

haley 's research on a small number of patients has previously concluded that some gulf war veterans suffer from distinct symptom clusters caused by chemical poisoning and that some may suffer neurological damage from nerve gas or pesticides .


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albright did not directly threaten an attack on iraq if it did not submit , but she said '' we have our red lines ; we have made that clear. ''


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on monday evening , sen. trent lott , the majority leader , and three other republicans wrote president clinton complaining about fresh reports that iraq had deployed weapons carrying vx nerve gas before the gulf war , the washington post reported .


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aziz wrote that baghdad had given the special commission `` the relevant clarifications , explanations and documents pertaining to vx nerve gas '' and had demonstrated that `` iraq did not have any other documents on the question. ''


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

in the past , inspectors repeatedly found documents with details of biological and chemical weapons production that iraqi officials had insisted did not exist .


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it is that the danger of nuclear war is off their backs .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

yet today , `` weapons of mass destruction '' present more and different things to worry about than during the cold war .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

since the cold war is over and american and russian nuclear inventories are much smaller , there is less chance of an apocalyptic exchange of many thousands of weapons .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

second , the mainstays of cold war security policy _ deterrence and arms control _ are not what they used to be .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

this was partly true in the cold war , when the main danger that nuclear weapons might detonate on u.s. soil sprang from strategic engagement in europe , asia and the middle east to deter attacks on u.s. allies .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

during the cold war , nuclear weapons were the bedrock of american war capabilities .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

in a manner that could only have seemed ludicrous during the cold war , proponents now rationalize the $ 2 billion b- 2 as a weapon for conventional war .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the majority of those who dealt with nuclear-weapons policy during the cold war adamantly opposed developing first-strike options .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

but it is no longer prudent to assume that important security interests complement each other as they did during the cold war .


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-lrb- richard k. betts is director of national security studies at the council on foreign relations and professor of political science and director of the institute for war and peace studies at columbia university .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

washington _ as the united states pressed an intense diplomatic campaign to isolate president saddam hussein of iraq , administration and pentagon officials said tuesday that they had sufficient forces and firepower in the persian gulf to launch a strike on iraq within days .


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secretary of defense william cohen began a whirlwind tour of european and persian gulf allies with a stop in london .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the pentagon drastically reduced the number of aircraft it has based in the region , including those at saudi arabia 's prince sultan air base , while it doubled the number of tomahawk cruise missiles it has aboard navy ships and submarines plying the persian gulf .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the cruise missiles _ and the 50 or so combat aircraft aboard the aircraft carrier dwight d. eisenhower _ could enable the united states to mount an attack against iraq without having to spend days or weeks trying to secure permission from gulf states reluctant to support strikes against fellow arabs in iraq .


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his entourage _ including undersecretary of state thomas pickering and the commander of american forces in the region , gen. anthony zinni _ did not include any members of the news media .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

nor has the itinerary been made public , although he is to travel to kuwait and other gulf states on wednesday , and turkey announced he would be there on friday .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

officials said the decision to give the trip a low public profile was a deliberate effort to avoid putting the gulf allies in a position to have to declare support or not .


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`` it 's hard to judge from day to day where the mood of the gulf is , '' one official said .


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`` they attacked because they were attacked , and they did the appropriate thing , '' clinton said of the pilots during remarks at the old executive office building .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

during more than 400 cruise missile strikes and 250 combat sorties over four nights this month , iraq did not fire its sam missiles , the pentagon said , evidently fearing retaliation by american and british weapons able to hone in on the batteries ' radar signals .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the united states and its allies cited u.n. resolutions adopted in the aftermath of the persian gulf war to justify enforcing the `` no flight '' zones , but the security council itself has never explicitly authorized them .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

in august 1996 , saddam 's ground forces rolled into the northern enclave to intervene in a civil war between kurdish factions , and the clinton administration could do little expect fire four dozen cruise missiles against air-defense targets in the south .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

`` the days following the expanded notification announcement have been the busiest in the history of the defense manpower data center hot line service for persian gulf incidents , '' michael doubleday , defense department spokesman , said at a news conference .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

the defense department has set up two hot lines for gulf war veterans .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

one is for servicemen and women to call with information relating to their gulf experiences , and the other for those who may have been exposed to chemical weapons and want to sign up for medical examinations .


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washington , november 11 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- u.s. president bill clinton today promised a thorough investigation into the unexplained ailments afflicting many gulf war veterans .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

`` we will discharge our obligations to those who served in the persian gulf . ''


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

they have attributed the illnesses to `` gulf war syndrome `` caused by exposure to chemical and biological weapons .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

in a draft report , the presidential advisory committee on gulf war veterans ' illnesses did not find evidence of a syndrome but recommended an independent investigation .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

noting 26,000 cases of disability among gulf veterans , clinton said they deserve an explanation for what 's happened to them and support to overcome their sickness .


Question: when did the persian gulf war occur ?

`` i want to assure all of you that we will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to investigate these cases and to provide our gulf war veterans with the medical care they need , '' he said .


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the pentagon said that it did not learn that there were chemical weapons until may and june of this year .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

in late 1790 , an inquisitive government agent knocked on the door of boston silversmith and patriot paul revere and dutifully noted his name and the number of people living under his roof .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

as the american revolution began in 1775 , revere galloped out from boston to lexington , mass. , rousing the countryside and warning that the british were marching .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

'' but it is clear , from the questions that were asked , that there were no slaves in paul revere 's household. ''


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

'' most people realized the important nature of what was being set in motion , '' said david hendricks , a census bureau historian , standing near the case with the sheet of ruled paper listing the names of paul revere and other bostonians .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

the whole panoply of american architecture , from bulfinch to i.m. pei , is on show here .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

american legal tradition owes much to boston .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

they have their successors in this century in scholars and writers like david reisman , john k. galbraith and henry louis gates jr. houghton mifflin and little , brown & co. carry on the city 's publishing tradition , and wgbh , boston 's public television station , produces much of the best fare on pbs , including the julia child programs and `` the american experience . ''


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

the city 's theatrical life is centered , however , across the river , in cambridge , where the gifted , turbulent robert brustein directs the american repertory theater , an unfailing source of new dramatic ideas .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

paul revere house , 19 north square , -lrb- 617 -rrb- 523-2338 .


Question: what was the profession of american patriot paul revere ?

american repertory theater , loeb drama center , 64 brattle st. , cambridge , -lrb- 617 -rrb- 547-8300 .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

in late 1790 , an inquisitive government agent knocked on the door of boston silversmith and patriot paul revere and dutifully noted his name and the number of people living under his roof .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

'' but it is clear , from the questions that were asked , that there were no slaves in paul revere 's household. ''


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

'' most people realized the important nature of what was being set in motion , '' said david hendricks , a census bureau historian , standing near the case with the sheet of ruled paper listing the names of paul revere and other bostonians .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

a few lines of longfellow 's `` midnight ride of paul revere , '' and you were right there , riding alongside the boston silversmith in all his one -if-by-land , two -if-by-sea glory .


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the tour begins at the omni parker house where henry wadsworth longfellow read excerpts from his famous poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere . ''


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

the art is longfellow 's famous poem , `` paul revere 's ride , '' written 85 years after the event .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

the discrepancies between revere 's real ride and his ride in the poem are many , and they not only offer us insights into how artists show history , but also force us to question how seriously -lrb- if at all -rrb- we should trust artists to tell the truth .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

the real paul revere , by the way , understood very well that artists fudge the truth , especially since he did so himself in a noted work of pre- revolution propaganda : a popular , inflammatory and grossly inaccurate engraving of the boston massacre -lrb- 1770 -rrb- , which made for a far more interesting story than what actually happened .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

an ardent voice for american independence _ one of the original sons of liberty and an organizer of the boston tea party _ revere took many midnight rides before his most famous one , organizing a network of fellow patriots ready to warn the countryside if and when the redcoats decided to move .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

the result was `` paul revere 's ride. ''


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

and it 's much more exciting to have revere ride not just to lexington but concord too , although in reality he never made it to concord -lrb- he was stopped by a british patrol -rrb- .


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`` paul revere 's ride '' was an instant hit -lrb- except with historians -rrb- .


Question: who is the author of the poem `` the midnight ride of paul revere ? ''

on the recent anniversary of paul revere 's real ride , what lesson can paul revere 's imaginary ride teach us ?


Question: what is the `` sunflower state '' ?

even across the sunflower state , the temperature varied from the middle 70s in southeast kansas to the middle 20s in northwest sections on saturday .


Question: who wrote `` fiddler on the roof ? ''

he did jerry bock and sheldon harnick 's first success , `` fiorello , '' as well as their biggest , `` fiddler on the roof . ''


Question: how old is the universe ?

a team of nasa astronomers says its measurements to pulsating stars suggest that the universe is about 12 billion years old , somewhat younger than earlier estimates .


Question: how old is the universe ?

a team of cosmic observers has concluded that the universe is about 12 billion years old _ a far more precise date than previous estimates _ and that it is expanding at an accelerating pace that will essentially continue forever .


Question: how old is the universe ?

freedman , however , does not claim that her team 's number is `` final , '' and agrees that the universe might well turn out to be 13.5 billion years old , depending on what its total mass is .


Question: how old is the universe ?

a team of scientists led by an astronomer from the carnegie observatories in pasadena , calif. , has completed a survey of 800 stars called cepheid variables , and it indicates that the universe is probably between 12 billion and 13.5 billion years old .


Question: how old is the universe ?

even if the universe were only 12 billion years old , it would be 2,182 , 612 times older than eusebius thought it was .


Question: how old is the universe ?

an important team of scientists with extremely good eyesight just figured out that the universe is possibly 12 billion years old .


Question: how old is the universe ?

before hubble , scientists thought the universe was only about 10 billion years old , which was weird because they knew that certain stars actually were 12 billion years old .


Question: how old is the universe ?

but the hubble proved that the universe is at least 12 billion years old , so the scientists were lucky there .


Question: how old is the universe ?

now , the thing that has always bugged me about outer space , the universe and everything is that , if the universe is 12 billion years old , what was there before the universe formed .


Question: how old is the universe ?

london , march 4 -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- the universe is about 15 billion years old , a united states research group said after calculating the distance between stars .


Question: how old is the universe ?

q. how old is the universe , and will it continue to expand or eventually contract back in , like a bungee cord ?


Question: how old is the universe ?

a. give or take a few minutes , the universe is about 10 billion years old , or 14 billion , or 18 billion , depending on who you talk to .


Question: how old is the universe ?

since then , other astronomers have used the hubble constant to estimate the age of the universe as anywhere from 10 billion to 20 billion years old .


Question: how old is the universe ?

sandage has a much different calculation for the hubble constant and argued that the universe could be anywhere between 14 billion and 18 billion years old , depending on its total mass .


Question: how old is the universe ?

in a report being published friday in the journal science , he concludes that the universe is most probably about 13.4 billion years old , give or take 1.6 billion years .


Question: how old is the universe ?

old theories that the gravity of the universe would eventually cause it to collapse many billions of years from now _ in what astronomers have termed a `` big crunch '' _ are now widely discarded .


Question: how old is the universe ?


Question: how old is the universe ?

for some reason , this does not sound like a very broad range of numbers , though in fact a universe that is 20 billion years old is twice as old as one that is merely 10 billion years old .


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neither does the fact that , given these new numbers , the universe is only a little more than three times as old as life on earth .


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a guy was invited to some old friends ' home for dinner .


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their child , who seemed to be about a year old , pointed at the photo and said something in baby talk that i could n't understand .


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times have changed department : karen hanauer was on a down escalator at saks fifth avenue when a little girl , about 4 years old , passed by going up .


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was it just a big old empty space , like a strip mall department store just waiting for some cosmic tenant to move in ?


Question: how old is the universe ?

but since they measure the expansion in kilometers instead of good old american `feet , ` you know it 's serious .


Question: how old is the universe ?

can that somewhere hold an entire expanding universe ?


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the field was given an enormous boost by taxol , a promising anticancer compound derived from the bark of the pacific yew tree , a conifer found in the remaining virgin forests of the us 's pacific northwest .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

conservationists are worried that in the rush to extract taxol from the bark of the pacific yew tree , remaining stands of the tree will be obliterated .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

however , mcchesney said researchers have now found that taxol can be extracted from the yew 's needles , rather than its bark .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

news that the fda had approved the marketing of taxol , a promising new cancer drug derived from the pacific yew tree , helped shares in bristol-myers advance dollars 3/4 to dollars 68 1/2 .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the us government yesterday approved the use of taxol - a potential cancer fighter derived from the bark of pacific yew trees - for ovarian cancer patients who have not responded to other treatments , reuter reports from washington .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

analysts have predicted sales of taxol , derived from the bark of rare pacific yew trees , of up to dollars 50m -lrb- pounds 33.1m -rrb-


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

taxol is now being tested against ovarian and breast cancers .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the us national cancer institute first discovered taxol in the 1960s but saw its natural products program languish in the 1980s .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the controversy surrounding taxol has underscored the issue of supply .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

bristol-myers has received permission to market taxol to women with ovarian cancer who have failed to respond to chemotherapy .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

taxol is being studied for a number of other cancer uses including breast , lung and head and neck cancers .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

an advisory panel of the us food and drug administration -lrb- fda -rrb- yesterday recommended marketing approval for the drug taxol to treat ovarian cancer which does not respond to standard treatment , writes karen zagor in new york .


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morphine is derived from opium , for example , and penicillin is a fungal metabolite .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

james mcchesney , director of the research institute for pharmaceutical sciences at the university of mississippi estimates the compound generates as much as dollars 300m a year in sales in europe .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the drug is an analog of campotothecin , a compound extracted from trees in china and india .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

the company is studying analogs of the compound and it is searching for new plant medicines as part of a research consortium with the university of illinois in chicago , one of the leading academic centres involved in medicinal plants .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

another promising product is artemisinin , an antimalarial drug originally derived from a plant found in china and south-east asia , according to mcchesney .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

'the excitement is that the compound is effective for drug -resistant malaria and is practically a miraculous drug for cerebral malaria , a serious form of the disease , ' he said .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

artemesia annua , from which the compound is derived , is a 'worldwide naturalised weed , ' said mcchesney .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

'by using traditional knowledge there is greater likelihood of yielding an active compound or a pharmaceutical , ' said lisa conte , shaman 's president .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

shaman is the traditional name for 'medicine man ' .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

one is an anti-viral drug against respiratory infections ; the second is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent derived from a plant used by native tribes in north america and africa for the treatment of infections .


Question: what is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree ?

conte claimed that by using traditional medicines , shaman 's 'hit rate ' - the number of times screening finds a compound with activity against a certain target - is 'one in two extracts versus the mass screening process in large pharmaceutical companies which is one in thousands ' .


Question: what is australia 's national blossom ?

or better yet , if it 's a little bit of color that 's needed inside the stadium , dispense with the artwork altogether and plant boxes of wattle blossoms , the national flower of australia .


Question: what is australia 's national blossom ?

the simi valley high product will sing the national anthem as you 've never quite heard it before with his punk band pulley , then trot out from the bullpen in the bottom of the ninth with one -out , one -on and a one -run lead .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the 1999 mustang sports edgier lines in keeping with the original 1964 mustang and with ford 's new edge design , which uses sharp edges to create surface tension on the metal .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

car-smart-mustang -lrb- undated -rrb- _ like all long-lasting models , the ford mustang that was introduced in 1964 has had its highs and lows , including some bloated and toothless models in the early '70s that were followed by the silly pinto -based mustang ii .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

muscle-cars -lrb- schenectady , n.y. -rrb- _ the heyday of muscle cars began about the time the country fell in love with the ford mustang , introduced april 17 , 1964 , at the new york world 's fair .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the heyday of these magnificent machines began about the time the country fell in love with the ford mustang , introduced april 17 , 1964 , at the new york world 's fair .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

for its 35th anniversary , the ford mustang has received a makeover that includes hints of the original pony car .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the mustang emblem on the grille is also reminiscent of the original : the galloping pony is circled by a chrome corral .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the new mustang has more horsepower in both the v6 and v8 engines .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

an optional all-speed traction control system will be offered to help the rear-drive mustang trot through the snow .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the new mustang goes on sale in december ; a high-performance cobra version follows in february .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

phoenix - ford stylists decided to play the retro card with the -lrb- mostly -rrb- new 1999 mustang , celebrating the 35th anniversary of the original pony car with a nod to the past .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

meanwhile , ford engineers were refining this old-style muscle car into a thoroughly modern automobile , making it tighter , quicker and generally more fun to be with .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

why , it was only yesterday that my buddies and i were careening around the neighborhood in a slightly used '66 mustang convertible complete with a 289 v-8 and the coveted pony interior .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

maybe it was a long time ago that ford took the chassis of its compact falcon and created a new kind of funmobile .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

quickly , mustang also became ford 's imagemaker and perennial performance machine .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

and , aside from a mid-'70s detour as the crumby , downsized mustang ii , it has stayed the course .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

still , it 's a new look for mustang , the beveled edges , rounded flanks and glowering headlights bringing it crisply up to date .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

and compared with the archaic suspension and handling of our '66 model , the new mustang brings the breed into focus as a car that performs as good as it looks .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

if you 're not in the power game , mustang also comes with an upgraded 3.8-liter v-6 that 's been kicked up 40 horsepower to 190 .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the enhanced v-8 brings mustang gt 's acceleration more into line with archrival chevrolet camaro z-28 .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the extra oomph is noticeable especially from a standstill , when the mustang hunkers down and takes off with a hot-rod roar .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

if you require more , there 's the limited-edition mustang svt , with 320 horsepower stuffed under the hood , thanks to reworked cylinder heads with a total of 32 valves instead of 16 , and some intake- and exhaust-system redesign .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the engine 's the same as the svt , but the cobra will boast mustang 's first-ever independent rear suspension for better handling and overall finesse .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

as it is , the mustang gt 's handling feels more supple and better controlled than last year 's .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

in curves and quick maneuvers , the mustang remains poised and controllable , feeling nicely balanced .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

a quick run along a twisting desert road was a romp , though in some tight turns at speed , the mustang tends to feel heavy .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

shakes , rattles and heaves are a lot less noticeable in the new mustang than in any of its predecessors .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

passengers in the rear need to be considerably smaller than adult scale _ a standard complaint with mustang convertibles .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the trunk is small and shallow , another mustang tradition .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

the '99 mustang is well-priced across the board , with v-6 coupes starting at just over $ 16,000 and lavishly equipped gt convertibles like our tester just over $ 27,000 .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

ford mustang gt convertible - vehicle type : four -passenger , two-door convertible , rear-wheel drive .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

about- cars -mustang -lrb- undated -rrb- _ the new suspension in the ford mustang cobras is a watershed , giving the car newfound sureness and putting it within range of european automobiles _ in road manners , if not in overall sophistication .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

but the mustang 's recent resurgence is due , in part , to its return to its roots .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

ford restyled the car to celebrate this year 's anniversary , reviving touches from the best models of the past .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

and almost nothing is quite like the 2000 mustang gt convertible to take on just such a drive .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

with all the retro-look cars that have come on the market lately , such as the plymouth prowler , chrysler pt cruiser and volkswagen new beetle , nothing is quite as authentic for nostalgia 's sake as the current mustang .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

it has always been , and i hope always will continue to be , a throwback to the late '60s , when muscle cars were king of the road , and the mustang led the pack .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

granted , at middle age i felt a bit silly sitting down behind the wheel of a zinc -yellow mustang gt with boy-racer black stripes and the big `` gt '' letters on the hood .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

it will as long as those roads are n't wet ; if they get wet , though , it 's time to park the mustang .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

but wait : for 2000 , ford finally has added traction control to the mustang , something that has been needed for years .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

-lrb- the connecticut highway patrol , which has used mustang gts as pursuit vehicles for years , has had a policy of keeping those vehicles parked when the roads are wet -rrb- .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

for $ 230 , the traction control can be added to any 2000 mustang , and it works at any speed to help limit wheel spin and stabilize steering on slippery surfaces .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

ford mildly restyled the mustang last year , the first changes since the current generation of the vehicle made its worldwide debut at the texas state fair in dallas in fall 1993 .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

it would have been nice to have the option to shift the automatic transmission manually like the feature that some other cars with automatics offer , but clutchless manual shifting was n't available on the mustang .


Question: when was the first ford mustang made ?

despite its retro look and feel , the mustang has lots of modern features besides the traction control and antilock brakes .


Question: who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?

andrew barnes , chief executive of times publishing , parent of the st. petersburg times , said in a dec. 26 letter in the newspaper that the debt to the poynter institute for media studies had been paid .


Question: who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?

the company that publishes the st. petersburg times has paid off a $ 30 million debt to the poynter institute for media studies , the nonprofit group that owns it , ensuring the durability of one of the country 's most unusual newspaper ownership arrangements .


Question: who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?

in a move that ensured the durability of one of the country 's most unusual newspaper ownership arrangements , the company that publishes the st. petersburg times has paid off a $ 30-million debt to the nonprofit institute that owns it .


Question: who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?

the st. petersburg times , with a daily circulation of 314,000 , is one of the nation 's most respected regional newspapers , and numbered among the nation 's 10 best newspapers in a recent columbia journalism review survey .


Question: who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?

as the number of independent newspapers dwindled in the last 30 years , the owners of the st. petersburg times , the day in new london , conn. , and the delaware state news , in dover , del. , developed unconventional arrangements to avoid the sale of their publications _ a frequent consequence of inheritance taxes and squabbles among heirs .


Question: who is the owner of the st. petersburg times ?


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

inventor eli whitney 's marvel , the cotton gin , was great for the american economy but , we learn , bad for the cause of black freedom .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

in 1794 , eli whitney received a patent for his cotton gin , an invention that revolutionized america 's cotton industry .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

there are biographical displays on america 's great gunsmiths _ samuel colt and eliphalet remington and eli whitney -lrb- who invented interchangeable gun parts as well as the cotton gin -rrb- , horace smith and daniel wesson .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

almost every work dealing with this sorrowful chapter in american history focuses on the antebellum south _ the years between eli whitney 's invention of the cotton gin in 1792 -lrb- which made slavery a much more important part of the nation 's economy -rrb- and the shots fired on fort sumter in 1861 , which marked the beginning of the civil war .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

rich cotton planters _ their fortunes secure thanks to the cotton gin , invented by eli whitney , who had come to savannah from yale to teach on a cotton plantation _ built many of the ornate homes encircling the squares .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

it was here , at mulberry grove plantation , eight miles upstream from downtown savannah , that eli whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

they formed the miller and whitney co. to market the cotton gin .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

athough history credits whitney as the inventor of the cotton gin , neither he nor miller derived any great financial return from the machine .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

it was here , at mulberry grove plantation , eight miles upstream from downtown savannah , thateli whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

knowing that whitney possessed impressive inventive and mechanical skills , mrs. greene told the others that he could make a machine to clean it _ and by april 1793 he had built the first cotton gin .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

other manufacturers , too , copied whitney 's idea , so there was more than one early cotton gin .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

`` brotherly love '' looks at the first four decades of the new nation , including the growth of philadelphia 's unique free black community , the role of black churches in demanding the end of slave laws and the westward spread of slavery fueled by cotton farming .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

each territory relied on plantation farming , and the demand for product _ say rice and indigo in south carolina , or sugar and cotton in mississippi _ dictated how entrenched slavery became in the various sections .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

for instance , the invention of the cotton gin , a machine that separates seeds from cotton fibers , greatly increased the profitability of cotton farming , and thus the need for slave labor , at a time when the institution was on the wane .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

cotton-gin _ savannah , ga. _ amid the tangled , junglelike growth along the lower savannah river , a pile of crumbling bricks is all that remains of the old plantation house where a young tutor invented a machine that abruptly changed the course of the south _ and ultimately the entire nation .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

the simple machine , which efficiently separated cotton fibers from seeds , ushered in the era of king cotton and , according to some historians , gave rise to america 's industrial revolution .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

savannah , ga. _ amid the tangled , junglelike growth along the lower savannah river , a pile of crumbling bricks is all that remains of the old plantation house where a young tutor invented a machine that abruptly changed the course of the south _ and ultimately the entire nation .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

in turn , the south 's frenzy to feed textile mills up north and overseas with cotton gave rise to a great expansion of slavery , ultimately engulfing the nation in four years of bloody civil war .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

intensive cotton farming changed the south 's landscape forever , eroding the rich topsoil and leaving behind a red clay the color of baked sweet potato .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

instead , the group wants the former plantation to be preserved forever as a historic park , telling the story of the cotton gin and its massive impact on america .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

wildlife service officials say that if the agency acquires the property , it would be willing to sign a long-term lease with the foundation to establish the historic park . the agency also would support the establishment of a museum on the property to help tell the story of the cotton gin and the reign of king cotton and its aftermath .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

this delighted her , and she urged him to put his mind to inventing the greatly needed cotton machine .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

q : i read that savannah , ga. , was the birthplace of the cotton gin .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

according to the story , guests were discussing greenseed cotton one evening and said they could n't grow it profitably because of the time it took to clean .


Question: who invented the cotton gin ?

with the financial backing of a partner , phineas miller , he began to make cotton gins .


Question: what is australia 's oldest city ?

in sydney 's case , the essential fact is that australia 's oldest , largest , and most interesting urban center is also one of the few remaining world-class cities still centered _ physically and psychologically _ on its harbor , the original reason for its existence .


Question: what is australia 's oldest city ?

the author is less successful in portraying the sydneysiders themselves .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

nolan ryan , who struck out more batters and threw more no-hitters than any major leaguer ever , said his fondest baseball memories were of little league ball in alvin , texas .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

in fact , he left a minor league ballpark with a no-hitter in progress in the sixth inning when he got the call from the big leagues .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

he also recently bought a minor league team that his oldest son , reid , will run .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

ken was a former big league pitcher and bobby was a minor leaguer .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

pictures of the little league champions from toms river , n.j. , standing proudly next to their yankee counterparts during the national anthem at yankee stadium last tuesday did more than give the kids the second thrill of their lives in a week .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

they evoked the fact that the big leaguers once were little leaguers themselves , sporting baggy uniforms and major league dreams .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

`` i still remember it like it was yesterday , '' said paul o'neill , the yankee right fielder , who played little league in columbus , ohio .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

roughly 80 percent of today 's major leaguers played little league baseball _ including players from places outside the united states , like panama -lrb- mariano rivera of the yankees -rrb- and even tiny curacao -lrb- andruw jones of the atlanta braves -rrb- .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

eight played in the little league world series .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

with or without any national glory , major leaguers look back on their little league days more nostalgically as the years pass .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

-lrb- sammy sosa of the chicago cubs , his rival in the current home-run chase , did n't play little league ball in his native dominican republic . -rrb-


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

for cal ripken , the iron man of the baltimore orioles , the little league was the place to hone a boy 's unabashed love for baseball .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

`` the little league parents are even worse in puerto rico than they are in the states .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

every parent thinks their kid is going to play in the major leagues someday. ''


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

in 1954 , when he watched the little league world series , he commented to a friend , `` i would n't be surprised if some of these kids made it to the majors . ''


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

five players went on to become the first little league world series veterans to reach the big leagues , including the 1962 national league rookie of the year , ken hubbs , and the baltimore orioles slugger boog powell .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

`` little league was the first opportunity for children in alvin to get involved in any organized activity .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

so even if the boys of toms river never won the world series , never stood next to the yankees at the stadium and never make the majors , they wo n't forget their little league days .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

los angeles _ for most of the 28 former major leaguers on the 1999 hall of fame ballot , this morning 's press conference in new york will bring suspense and anticipation .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

he is the only player in major league history with 3,000 hits , 300 homers , 600 doubles , 100 triples and 200 steals .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

george steinbrenner is notorious for his complaints about umpires , filling the american league 's film library for years with footage of what he feels are bungled calls .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

garcia said he offered to call steinbrenner and tell him that he , garcia , would make that call , but the league declined the gesture .


Question: who has the most no hitters in major league baseball ?

hall officials explain that the executive category from which the committee can select one person each year always has been interpreted as including officials from major league baseball or the national association , the minor leagues organization .


Question: what year did `` snow white '' come out ?

atlanta _ in the beginning , back in 1937 , there was snow white , with her squeaky-clean image and her squeaky-clean dream that someday her prince would come .


Question: what year did `` snow white '' come out ?

but what did any of them really want out of life besides the right to live happily ever after with the right guy ?


Question: what year did `` snow white '' come out ?

things changed for females in the late '60s and '70s , but in the wonderful world of disney , change did n't come so quickly .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

pamfilova is the first woman to run for president in russia .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

there are no fewer than 11 other candidates , among whom is the first woman to run for the russian presidency , the liberal reformer and former social affairs minister , 46-year-old ella pamfilova .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

a woman running for president of the united states is not a breakthrough .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

but elizabeth dole is still making history as the first woman to enter the presidential primary season as one of the front-runners .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

one challenge in evaluating mrs. dole 's candidacy is not to cut her too much slack simply because america has waited so long for a woman to make a serious run for president .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

mrs. dole has never run for office , except in the role of supportive spouse .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

as a woman , she will have to put up with a kind of scrutiny that male candidates are not bothered with .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

the women who are moving up the political ladder behind her may be able to enter the competition on a more even basis because elizabeth dole got the public used to the idea of seeing a woman running for the white house .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

moscow _ `` if only there was woman candidate we could vote for .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

now , this weekend 's upcoming presidential elections , they do have a woman for whom they can vote .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

if she won the kremlin , she would be the first woman to rule russia since the empress catherine the great .


Question: who was the first woman to run for president ?

russia 's first woman presidential candidate admitted that she had virtually no chance of winning the election but said she had reason to hope for third or fourth place , which might inspire younger russian women coming up behind her .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

if she won the kremlin , she would be the first woman to rule russia since the empress catherine the great .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

germans went to russia about 200 years ago at the invitation of the german-born empress catherine the great who granted them land , religious freedom and other special privileges in return for helping to modernize the country .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

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Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

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Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

ethnic germans returning home from the former soviet union are not placing a burden on germany 's pension system , the country 's labor minister said monday .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

still , billington sometimes manages to go beyond the obligatory _ the hermitage , the kremlin , the larger-than-life rulers from catherine the great to lenin .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

he takes us to a tiny , pristine country church , and to the grandiose church of the transfiguration , with its bouquet of 22 onion domes and its 30,000 hand-hewn wooden shingles .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

in eisenstein 's epic `` october , '' bolshevik soldiers storm rastrelli 's great staircase in the winter palace to take over the government .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

my birthday book catherine hoesterey ; illustrated by mary lake-thompson -lrb- little , brown & co. , $ 14.95 -rrb-


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

they include a brave kindergarten teacher who led her 14 students to safety after they were trapped in an elevator during the 1993 world trade center bombing ; a group of mountain climbers trapped on mount everest ; and a foolish but gutsy cuban stowaway who escaped his country by hiding in the wheel well of a jetliner bound for spain .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

colorful illustrations and photographs bring the great beasts to life .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

it was not in catherine 's nature to buy drawings in ones and twos .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

she wanted a great museum , the way peter the great had wanted a great capital city .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

catherine began buying for her museum in 1764 .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

with this single stroke , catherine the great acquired more than 4,000 master drawings by western european artists .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

catherine went on to buy 1,020 drawings from the collection of count heinrich bruehl , who was at the time a minister at the court of saxony in dresden .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

the truce in question ended a grueling civil war between flanders and the netherlands and ushered in a period in which the great port of antwerp reopened , normal trading resumed and the economy flourished .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

we can imagine catherine the great 's meaty arms as she reached for her favorite drawings while leaving hundreds of others unopened in their crates .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

the first museum of art in moscow did not possess any drawings until 1873 .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

the pushkin museum did not get its present name until 1937 .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

alcide 's slow aria in quest of aretea , virtually plagiarized , one assumes unconsciously , from orfeo 's great aria `` che faro senza euridice ? '' in gluck 's most famous opera , which was new at the time .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

in the west , meanwhile , peter evolved into something of a great individualist driven by the longing to reform his backward society , to make it western .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

the kgb lieutenant colonel who was abruptly bumped into the presidential throne of a nation in total disarray comes nowhere near `` the great '' in ambition , potential , drive or physical height .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

the men have made quite enough of a mess in this country with their aggression , their drunkenness and their corruption .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

in 1968 the doomed czechoslovak leader , alexander dubcek , sought to improve the imperfect system in his country by advocating `` socialism with a human face. ''


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

moscow _ in this weekend 's upcoming presidential elections , russians will finally have a woman for whom they can vote .


Question: what country did catherine the great rule ?

the answer will give a clear sign of where the country is headed under vladimir putin , who is set to be elected president on march 26 .


Question: who makes viagra ?

the research was financed by pfizer inc. , which makes viagra .


Question: who makes viagra ?

it was supported by a grant from pfizer , which makes viagra .


Question: who makes viagra ?

pfizer inc. , which makes viagra , said many other insurers were covering the drug .


Question: who makes viagra ?

ms. tarmy pointed out that ms. powers already owned shares of pfizer , which makes viagra , the wildly popular anti-impotence medication , and did n't need to increase her exposure in that field .


Question: who makes viagra ?

pfizer , which makes both viagra and celebrex , is raking it in because of the aging populace .


Question: who makes viagra ?

a lobbyist for pfizer , the company that makes viagra , told u.s. news & world report that dole received $ 45,000 a week while his viagra ads were on tv .


Question: who makes viagra ?

but pfizer inc. , a competitor that makes viagra and zoloft , made a hostile bid for warner-lambert in november with the hope of wresting that company from its embrace with american home .


Question: who makes viagra ?

but while sex sells , the promise of pain relief , apparently , is what really makes for hot sales .


Question: who makes viagra ?

for example , ms. tarmy said , ms. powers recently proposed buying stock in zonagen , a small texas company that makes a drug to treat male impotence .


Question: who makes viagra ?


Question: who makes viagra ?

`` it makes sense that procter and gamble would look at this deal , '' steele said .


Question: how many inhabitants live in the town of ushuaia ?

ushuaia , a port of about 30,000 people set between the beagle channel and the southernmost ranges of the andes , became home to five screwdriver plants notorious for their poorly crafted and over-priced consumer durables .


Question: how many inhabitants live in the town of ushuaia ?

today it is a semi-boom town of some 30,000 souls who race around in huge tax-free jeeps and , together with the wealthy cruise ship passengers passing through on their way to antarctica , do a roaring trade in the bars and liquor shops .


Question: how many inhabitants live in the town of ushuaia ?

jagged peaks soar above the bay and encircle the town in a snowy embrace .


Question: how many inhabitants live in the town of ushuaia ?

he spotted the campfires of the yahgan indian inhabitants and named it tierra del humo : the land of smoke .


Question: how many inhabitants live in the town of ushuaia ?

at midnight one can read a paperback by natural light and the town is just beginning to bop .


Question: how many inhabitants live in the town of ushuaia ?

it is a good town in which to indulge in one of argentina 's gastronomic highlights , the parrillada - a selection of meat grilled over an open fire .


Question: how many inhabitants live in the town of ushuaia ?

there is a glacier on the peak at the back of the town , the path to it strewn with alpine flowers : saxifrage , house leeks , tiny yellow drumstick primulas , nodding icelandic poppies .


Question: how far is yaroslavl from moscow ?

in yaroslavl , 150 miles northeast of moscow , authorities imposed a local state of emergency and vowed to get the harvest in even if it meant marshaling industrial workers , students and army units .