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...Fujita Scale of tornado intensity, an F5 is the worst measurement that can be registered. The twister that hit Jarrell was one of those, with winds estimated at more than 260 m.p.h. that stripped the hides off cows, upended 50,000-lb. garbage trucks, lifted the asphalt off the road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm...
...lazy way along the gently curving road, cruising at 25 m.p.h. through rural Michigan's autumnal landscape of gold-and-orange-dappled trees. I'm reclining in the rear of the car with Jeff Zyburt, a Chrysler project manager. As we chat, the Jeep changes lanes from smooth asphalt to rough cobblestone, which sets us passengers bouncing around in the back seat...
With all the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth heard all across the campus recently, you'd think that Harvard students heard stallions braying and trampling hooves pounding on asphalt as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse gallopped up J.F.K. Street. But their cause for alarm was actually Harvard's slip from first to third place in the annual U.S. News and World Report college rankings. Apparently, students at Stanford are also reacting hysterically to their tumble from fourth to sixth place...
...Alewife T-stop is an adventure flick all in itself, though that may enhance the viewing experience. After crossing abandoned lots, playing "Frogger" across median-strips on multi-lane highways, hopping the guard rail and scrambling down a 45 degree muddy incline, and, finally, sprinting across the endless asphalt parking lot, you do feel pumped to watch "The Rock." Sony Harvard Square It's actually easy to get to, shows an ok variety of movies, serves up tasty mints on the way out, and even occasionally plays the "Thank You for Coming to Loewe's" jingle with the trailers...
Mounted at the front of the Forbes bus is a small sign that reads WELCOME ABOARD ASPHALT ONE. COMMANDER JOHN L. "JOHNNY" WILLIAMS. Next to the sign is a small bulletin board with tacked-on Polaroids of a shirt-sleeved George Bush sitting on the bus's banquette reading the newspaper. The Bush-Quayle campaign rented the 22-year-old motor coach in 1988 and 1992. The bus itself is on the tatty side ("It has 2.4 million miles on it," boasts Commander Johnny), but Forbes doesn't seem to notice. When the bus halts outside Atlantic, Iowa...