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After days of freezing rain, the rivers of northwestern Europe surged over their banks to engulf towns and cities in Germany, France, Belgium and-worst hit-the Netherlands. Thirty deaths were reported across Europe, with total damages estimated at more than $2 billion...
...killed six, injured another 43 and sparked a rampage by furious Aristide supporters. After U.S. soldiers prevented the mob from venting its wrath on several men suspected of throwing the bomb, the crowd turned on the warehouse itself. And in a sample of what rich Haitians have predicted could engulf the entire country, the throng stripped the building bare. They took everything: steel drums, bags of cement, iron bars, even coils of wire -- but this time no Americans intervened...
...Palestinian gunman from the Islamic Jihad group shot an Israeli dead and wounded four others near the southern town of Ashdod. Following a speech in Hebron by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday, the I.D.F. shot eight Palestinians with live and rubber bullets. Hamas warned that it would engulf the occupied territories in "real war" and vowed to turn Israel's independence day, April 14, "into hell." Israel responded by sealing off the occupied territories for one week...
...Wednesday night, the road to Gary Pattengill's house in Laguna Beach looks like something out of a Balkan war zone. The Pacific Coast Highway is wreathed in billows of ebony smoke. "My God!" Pattengill exhales, watching flames engulf a nearby luxury residence that had once boasted a killer view of the Pacific. Along the highway stand some of the Laguna Beach refugees. They have packed all the belongings they could salvage and are now stranded -- in their Mercedes-Benz and Cherokees...
...Newsweek story is just the latest installment in the mainstream media's attempt to figure out our generation. Why this insatiable curiosity? Perhaps because our parents are scared of us. They see us riding the wave of an increasingly violent, vulgar culture that threatens to engulf everything in its path...