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...MIDWEST: There was no school today in Lake Woebegon. In fact, with early morning wind chills of 70 below across much of Minnesota, Governor Arne Carlson closed all public schools in the state. A mass of arctic air has settled in over the region, bringing blizzard conditions that have shut most everything down. Gusting winds in the Dakotas have topped out over 50 mph, and conditions are nearly as bad in the plains and rolling hills of Iowa, where even the lightest dusting of snow is driven hard enough to create "whiteout" conditions. Even discounting wind chills -- which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Enough For Ya? | 1/16/1997 | See Source »

...YORK: An eight-team women's professional basketball league begins its inaugural forty game season Friday when the New England Blizzard take on the Richmond Rage at the Hartford Civic Center. The American Basketball League follows such ill fated attempts at a pro game for women as the Liberty Basketball Association, a league that never made it past its first exhibition game in 1991. This time around, league organizers say they have the financial backing, and the demographics, to make their game a success. ABL boosters point to statistics showing that basketball is the number one youth sport for girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABA Takes To The Court | 10/18/1996 | See Source »

...force of the bomb sheared off the outer wall of Building 131 and left a smoking crater 85 ft. across and 35 ft. deep where the truck had been parked. The shock wave blew in windows and pulverized reinforced concrete, creating a blizzard of slashing, crushing projectiles. Windows in several other buildings, some half a mile away, were also shattered. In the midst of the carnage, Guerrero came upon a dazed and wounded man and helped him down seven flights of stairs to an emergency van that had pulled up outside. While many of the hundred or more officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GULF SHOCK WAVES | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...Before the last game of the season against the Vikings, there was a huge blizzard, and of course, Harvard was not going to clear it up. People were standing up the whole game and since the press box was open, we were all standing up too," says McDonough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NFL's Boston Patriots Spent A Year in Harvard Stadium | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...storms at any time at extremes of altitude, but this one, it sounds like it was a real humdinger." --Mountaineer Greg Mortimer, of the blizzard that killed eight people on Mount Everest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 27, 1996 | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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