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...post. Even so, a bit of unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north of the flood zone, turned into a latter-day Noah's ark. For three days the zoo took in streams of animals, from household pets to ponies, donkeys, pheasants and kangaroos. Custodian Peter van der Eijk reported wearily, ``We're high...
Stocked with Irish and German Catholics when it first opened in 1912, the middle-class parish on the city's northern edge is increasingly filled with Asians, African Americans and Hispanics. That influx has not been enough to offset the impact of smaller families and the exodus of many parishioners fleeing rising crime. Since Mass attendance peaked in 1975 at about 2,700, it has steadily declined 5% a year. Kenneally decided to start the gym Mass just months after he arrived at the parish in 1984 as a way to lure back Catholics who considered the traditional Mass...
...also have read that several mutual-fund companies in the U.S. reached into their own pockets to cover recent losses in their money-market funds, even though they didn't have to. They acted out of the goodness of their hearts, and also to avoid a mass exodus of dollars from their funds and into savings accounts. Wall Street is showing a lot of compassion this holiday season...
After being delayed for two days by snow and bad weather, the nuclear exodus from Kazakhstan finally began late on the afternoon of Nov. 20, when the first of two C-5s ferrying the nuclear material lifted off. Their flights home were nonstop, made possible by extra pilots aboard and aerial refuelings over the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. "As soon as the wheels left the ground," said Navy Commander Paul Shaffer, the top military man on the mission, "everyone was cheering and clapping." More than 20 hours later, they landed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where...
That's right, the annual Thanksgiving exodus is already underway, and some students are apparently willing to go to great lengths to get out of town...