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...estimate, Californians have suffered $32 billion in disaster damages just since 1989. Even in an off year like 1991 -- the Oakland fire storm, a deep freeze, a drought -- the catastrophe tab came to $3 billion. Enter this, the first setback of 1995, into the ledger then, and it looks like a drop in the bucket, the past being prologue...
...Sahara-size sports drought came to an end as the New York Rangers won their first hockey championship since 1940 by beating the Vancouver Canucks in a tense, seesawing series. With the home team of the country's biggest media market now holding the Stanley Cup, the N.H.L. seemed poised to get a lot more & exposure. So how did the league capitalize on this opportunity? Before the new season started, the owners locked out the players, and since then not a single game has taken place...
...California has so many natural disasters--earthquakes, fire, drought--common things that draw people together," Garlin says...
...fact, maybe only at Harvard would a four-year period without a Nobel be called a "drought," Herschbach says...
...only drought here is in the field of literature," Herschbach says. "The Crimson is our big hope there...