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...moment, that's unlikely to happen. District Judge William Downes, who wrote the decision, stayed its enforcement until the expected blizzard of appeals is exhausted, which could take until well into next year. By that time, the wolves' numbers will surely have increased, making the job of removing the animals all the more difficult--and the battle to protect them all the more fierce. "I will fight with everything I have to keep the wolves in Yellowstone," says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. After more than a century on the run, the wolves themselves are accustomed to the struggle...
While individual professors often cancel classes during storms, the University has only closed once in 60 years due to weather, after a blizzard in February of 1978. That shutdown occurred only after then-gov. Michael S. Dukakis ordered the emergency closure of all schools...
Within a few hours, IMF president Michel Camdessus in a letter asked the U.S. to be ready to pony up additional funds. By evening, as the latest news from Seoul and Tokyo hit the Jefferson dining room in a blizzard of cell-phone calls, there was a growing sense around the table that the U.S. must, as one put it later, "intensify the effort." That meant sending to Seoul $2 billion in direct American loans that had been offered just a few weeks earlier as "a second line of defense...
...hours over roads crazy with scooters and cows every time he needs to take a flight (from New Delhi, 300 miles to the south). And when you call his tiny office, you usually hear that "all circuits are busy"--or the five-digit number changed yesterday, or, amid a blizzard of static, you get cut off in mid-sentence, the only small consolation being that you are put on hold to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down...
...blizzard of '78, we were the only thing open for two or three days. We had police going down to the supermarket getting supplies for us," Martin said...