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WIND AND HAIL POLICY In regions at high risk for severe wind and hail, insurance companies often exclude coverage for windstorm-related losses from homeowner policies. Don't despair: you can still insure your home. Several states, including Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina, have set up a special state-run windstorm pool to fund policies...
...Markus Rogan, who won two backstroke silvers to become Austria's first swimming medalist since 1912, was a Stanford team captain last season. Duje Draganja, who captured Croatia's first ever swimming medal with a silver in the 50-m freestyle, trains at U.C. Berkeley. And Coventry swims at Alabama's Auburn University. "I got to a point at home where I didn't have anyone to race," she says. Of course there were homegrown successes too. Back home in Warsaw, Poland's Otylia Jedrzejczak - who doubled her country's all-time pool haul by taking medals in three events...
...Near the hospital, a dozen recovering foreign patients have turned a hotel's fifth floor into a Hall of Miracles. Bob Wolfbauer of Michigan can use his index finger well enough to write his signature for the first time since a bicycle accident two years ago; Jake Giambrone of Alabama can move his right wrist for the first time since a wrestling injury four years ago; and Cade Richardson of Washington State can feel his rag-wool socks for the first time since his paraglider accident in 2001?"my feet itch," he says, "and it feels great...
...Justice has not been swift in this case, but justice must be delivered." ALABAMA GOVERNOR BOB RILEY, on his refusal to grant a stay of execution to James Barney Hubbard, 74, who became the oldest man executed since...
...James Barney Hubbard, the oldest man executed in the U.S. since 1941, put to death in Alabama for a 1977 murder-robbery...