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Growing up in a small town in the Texas Panhandle, I often saw the symbol for tornado watch in the lower right-hand corner of our TV screen in the spring. When the warnings seemed especially serious, my family would spend a few nervous hours in the dirt crawl space beneath our living room. I felt somewhat immune because of a local myth that the tremendous pressure at the oil refineries in our town of Phillips would keep tornadoes away. However, in the 1980s, after I left the area, the town was leveled; not a house was left standing...
...used to designate the year. Calculations are based on constantly going to a higher number, and when 99 goes to 00, the computer will think it has gone to a lower number. (Sure, the computer should know better, but let's face it, computers are sometimes dumb as dirt.) Magenta will start to run. "As an example," I was told, "bonds that pay more as the number of the year goes higher will pay less because the number will be lower...
Daniel Muelhaupt, the pilot of a small plane, watched as the big jet turned and plunged into the Everglades at a 75 degree angle in a 100-ft. spume of water, dirt and small fragments of debris. He then flew over the site and radioed for help. "The wreckage was like if you take your garbage and just throw it on the ground," he told CNN. Moments later Coast Guard aircraft and crews from the nearby Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show, then in progress, were dispatched to search for the aircraft, but they found only scattered pieces...
...still to come from the pens of Clark and Cochran. And those books, like Darden's and Shapiro's, will no doubt have one thing in common: each writer will work hard to drum up support for his team, even if doing so means dumping a little more dirt on the other...
...Cramer describes Russell as a town proud of the fact that everyone there had been broke at one time or another. When it stopped raining for a few years, the dust grew so thick they had to wrap babies in wet sheets to keep them from suffocating from the dirt. A farmer turned away by the local bank herded his cows into a corner, shot them one by one and them shot himself. Dole dug up dandelions for a nickel a bushel, delivered grocery handbills, worked in the drugstore. He listened to his parents talk about...