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...most lethal of Europe's recent disasters, however, was unrelated to the storms that so devastated Central Europe. Tourist settlements near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were hit Aug. 8 by tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...infrastructure and crops. In Austria, a 50-sq-km lake blanketed the Eferdinger Basin, an agricultural area west of Linz, and at least seven people died. In Germany, large tracts of Saxony and Bavaria - including much of Dresden - were submerged, with about a dozen people killed. And in Russia, flash floods and tornadoes along the Black Sea coast razed homes and businesses and killed dozens, many of them holidaymakers. It was the wildest flooding to hit the region in more than a century. And it left everyone from homeowners to politicians to scientists wondering why it was happening now. Last...
...Flash forward a few years. Two months ago, East Timor became an independent nation, though at a terrible price. In 1999, when Timorese voted to cut their ties with Indonesia, militia proxies of the Indonesian military went on a murderous rampage that left the country in ruins. Few foreigners have been able to forget the scenes of bloodshed and burning; tourists in East Timor are practically nonexistent. But it's time now to forget. The men who caused the destruction have fled, leaving behind a people basking in freedom and peace. They have also left behind one of the most...
...with airhead pop groups and infotainment, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor has secretly taken control of the U.S. behind a virtual-reality President. Batman, thought dead by the rest of the world, rescues various imprisoned heroes like The Atom, who controls his height from sub-atomic size to colossus, The Flash, who can run to the other side of the world in less than a second, and Plastic Man, who turns himself into any shape he desires. Together they battle not only Luthor, but also Superman, now forced to due Luthor's bidding for reasons too silly to explain here. This...
Fifteen minutes of fame might not be much--unless you're a fish, in which case that flash of notoriety is more than you had a right to expect in the first place. When it comes to the northern snakehead--the reputed land-walking, air-breathing, migrating Chinese predator that caused such panic when it turned up in a Crofton, Md., pond last month--the story may be even harder to kill than the fish. Faced with snakehead sightings in six other states, the Bush Administration--its hands arguably full with the war on terrorism, the Wall Street meltdown...