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There is an additional complication on the West Coast. Periodically, a warm- water current in the Pacific shifts eastward in a pattern called El Nino, a Spanish eponym for the Christ Child, so called because it appears off South America around Christmastime. The result: higher sea levels, unusually high tides and severe winter storms along the western coast of the Americas. During the most recent major occurrence of El Nino, in the early 1980s, sea levels along the California coast rose an average of 5 in. With the added tides and storms, the effects were catastrophic. Thomas Terich, a professor...
DIED. Jim Bishop, 79, terse newspaper columnist and melodramatic you-are-there pop historian (The Day Lincoln Was Shot); in Delray Beach, Fla. Bishop also pounded out The Day Christ Was Born and The Day Kennedy Was Shot, plus 18 other books, and wrote a thrice-weekly column from 1956 until...
...Three days after that, Jimmy Glass, 25, convicted of shooting a rural couple to death, took the chair with a quip: "I'd just as soon be fishing." Then last week Glass's accomplice Jimmy Wingo, 35, declared both innocence and forgiveness ("I do still love you all in Christ") as he became the fourth person to be executed in the state in ten days...
...Francisco, upholding a previous ruling by a federal district court, has turned away Paul's suit. The Constitution's guarantee of "free exercise," said the appeals panel, applies even to unpopular groups and practices and "requires that society tolerate the types of harm suffered by Paul." Responded Paul: "Jesus Christ never shunned anyone...
...club, from which he rented the single-engine aircraft. One intriguing theory for Rust's motivation was advanced by a West German amateur pilot named Silke Matzen, who was traveling in the Soviet Union and witnessed the Red Square landing. Since it occurred on the Christian holy day marking Christ's ascension to heaven, she noted, Rust may have been acting out a popular German aviators' drinking toast that goes, "On Ascension Day we land in Red Square...