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...with a blended family and most of our kids, ranging in age from 28 to 37, not living near us in Nashville." When the couple unveiled their plans, not every child was totally happy. Her 33-year-old daughter asked, "How can you desert us?" But it worked out fine. "You realize your kids can manage," Dianne says, adding that she did assuage her guilt with the one distraught daughter by cooking a traditional Christmas dinner for her and her friends four days before leaving for France...
...waited out the worst of the storm while the sheet-metal roof peeled like fruit, letting the rains pour in. Soon there was no light, no air, no working toilets. Reports came that four of the weakest died that first night. An elderly man, playing cards and seemingly fine, threw himself over a railing inside the stadium and committed suicide, witnesses told TV reporters. Members of the city's EMS team made their way there only to find anarchy. "We tried to start triaging and getting the special needs in one section," a technician recalls, but his team was overwhelmed...
...drain the floodwaters more quickly, but the big breach occurred in a levee that had recently been strengthened. "We were just caught by a storm of an intensity that exceeded the design of the project we have in place," Strock says. In other words, the levees worked just fine; it was the storm that screwed things up by being so powerful...
...Services, an Indiana-based collection agency that specializes in libraries. Forget to return that book for more than 120 days, and even your credit rating can take a hit. A Boise, Idaho, family was denied a mortgage two weeks ago after a credit check turned up an unpaid library fine. Some libraries are pressing criminal charges. A paralegal in Massachusetts was arraigned last month on four counts of failing to return library materials, a misdemeanor. Says Peter Anderegg, the librarian who filed the complaint: "We give you books, and you bring them back in two weeks or else. That...
...telling doctors he had lost his job in Paris and was attempting to commit suicide on the beach when police found him. Recent reports have suggested his piano skills were exaggerated and his muteness faked, but Grassl's lawyer maintains he was suffering from psychotic illness. "I am fine," were Grassl's first words to his family upon being reunited with them in Munich. "I am so happy to be home...