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...digits in many cities -- weather reporters were reduced to frying eggs on sidewalks and reprinting lame jokes ("How hot was it?" asked the New York Post. "So hot, Grant's Tomb had the front door open"). Even the breaks in the weather were bad. It snowed (in July!) in Colorado, but the white stuff melted too fast in most places to do skiers much good. In South Carolina, which had been spared the Midwest's drenching downpours, the total rainfall for June was .74 in. instead of the normal 4.8 in., causing millions of dollars in argicultural losses...
...there are hopeful signs. More than 26 million people attended concerts in 1991, and if season subscriptions are off in many places, single-ticket and short-series sales have gone up. Out of the ashes in Denver and New Orleans have risen new player-managed or partnership ensembles, the Colorado Symphony and the Louisiana Philharmonic. Younger audiences -- the norm in Europe, the exception in America -- are showing a new discrimination in what they want to hear...
Giant streaks of reflected solar light, haunting our lives with phrases like "Still going..." until we pull down the shades at night. Even in the pristine Colorado Rockies, ten thousand feet above sea level and far from civilization, you would see the ominous grunt...
...even as cases mounted, many were being exposed as hoaxes. By week's end more than a dozen people had been arrested for making false reports. Among & them were a Colorado woman and South Carolina man who were captured on video by store security cameras putting objects in cans; others were admitting they lied. The Pepsi scare fizzled as fast as an open can of cola on a hot picnic table...
...almost instant capitulation provoked an outcry among Democrats in the House, who had already taken the political risk of voting to approve Clinton's BTU-based energy tax. "I think we've been left hanging out on a plank, and I must say I don't like it," lamented Colorado's Patricia Schroeder. Though the White House still wants some kind of energy tax, it has ceded control over the budget process to the Senate Finance Committee, where an increased tax on gas and diesel fuel gained some support. To make up the loss of revenue caused by abandoning...