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Across its 1,000-mile-wide path, the storm found many. About 100 people died as a result of the violent weather, many of them trapped in cars on drift-blocked roads. Wisconsin's Dodge County Traffic Chief Vic Gherke warned motorists: "If you go out, even for an emergency, you're on your own. You can expect no help." In Ohio, where more than half the roads were closed, 7,700 people were rescued from snowbound cars. Governor Rhodes declared a state of emergency and called out 2,500 National Guardsmen to help with rescue efforts. President...
Virologists have now rechristened flu viruses, using the initials H and N for the two protein spikes and numbering their major changes. Thus the last major shift, the Hong Kong flu of 1968, becomes H3N2. But within each such shift minor changes known as drift can occur, and the last two of the five H3N2 drifts are A/Victoria and A/Texas...
Downstairs two middle-aged professors drift past the job center, speaking of the relationship between metaphors and real life. A girl with waist-length hair passes them with tears in her eyes. The convention is almost over, and she has failed to arrange a single interview. "There's got to be a better way of doing this," sighs a Wisconsin Ph.D. candidate. "Half the people here are enjoying themselves because they are secure in their jobs." He stares nervously as a department head who has just interviewed him passes by without a sign of recognition. "For the rest, M.L.A...
Satch could afford to let his mind drift off every so often while at Harvard. None of the players paid full attention to the game, so why should...
...conference not to adopt the rejectionists' stance but to persuade them to modify and soften their attitude toward a peace settlement. The Syrian President is apparently convinced that the radicals can come to some sort of agreement that will counter what one of his aides calls "the present drift toward surrender." But any such agreement, as far as Assad is concerned, will have to rest on the premise that peace is the goal and war the last-ditch alternative. Depending on how the final summit declaration is worded, Assad may go along with Palestinian-proposed resolutions calling for economic...