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There's a high wind in the Bahamas, and it's heading for the East Coast. The numbers are so large as to be almost beyond comprehension, and only comparison will do ? a storm the size of Texas, blowing winds faster than a speeding bullet train. The hurricane called Floyd is nearing what meteorologists call Class Five status, which means it would have sustained winds of over 156 miles per hour, with gusts even higher than that. Andrew, which killed 26 and caused $25 billion in damage in 1992, may be remembered as the little one ? it was only...
...stay away from any Baltimore team that doesn't have a horseshoe on the helmet. But put them up against a Rams team that belongs in the World League (and that's starting a quarterback fresh out of Arena Ball) and it's Baltimore with a bullet...
...acquired staph infections were resistant to the most common types of antibiotics. So what can doctors do? For starters, they can stop prescribing so many antibiotics - it only accelerates the development of supergerms. Already, hospitals are trying to hold back on the use of vancomycin, the last antibiotic silver bullet left in the chamber...
Those arriving on opening day will find Columbine scoured of any remnants of the shootings. Bloody carpets have been replaced by an acre of vinyl tiles, some designed by students. Bullet holes have been caulked and patched, and on the cafeteria walls, bomb stains have been scrubbed and covered over with beige paint. The skylight punctured by flying shrapnel has been replaced. The outdoor stairway around which two students died and five were injured has been rebuilt, widened and landscaped with terraces. As for the library, the scene of most of the carnage, it no longer officially exists. Workmen gutted...
...When a bullet has struck or a plane has crashed, Senator Ted Kennedy has been left to marry his family's private tears to those of the nation. He has done it so often and so well that we remember him most fondly for the goose-bump lines in his eulogies; he shines brightest in the darkest suit...