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As the new year begins, novelists send characters to great heights in Tibet and Wyoming, to the great depths of the 19th century Atlantic and back in time, to early 20th century Pakistan.
From Los Angeles Times
Almost nine months later, instead of crumbling under the highest U.S. tariffs in almost a century, the global trade system has been recast along new lines.
Disagreement over the border dates back more than a century, but tension increased early this year after a group of Cambodian women sang patriotic songs in a disputed temple.
From BBC
Along with his British research partner, Francis Crick, the US biologist James Watson made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th Century - the structure and function of DNA in the human body.
From BBC
The driest spring in more than a century led to a UK water shortage.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
