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...triumph of determination over adversity. In a ruined city, a small girl played with giant balloons; in a graveyard, a boy fashioned a swing from the branch of a tree. A Pennsylvania miner emerged from the dank earth, rescued in a near miracle after being trapped by an underground flood. In a personification of guts and glory, a football player thundered in the snow of January. And lost in his dreams, a boy rose above the silent confines of autism...
...matter how powerful humankind thinks itself to be, the forces of nature have a way of asserting themselves, bringing with them both awe and terror. Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder...
...China, the greatest fear is of a destabilized North Korea, perhaps leading to what the Bush Administration calls "regime change." A breakdown in the North's government could send a flood of millions of starving North Koreans into China, a situation that can be avoided if Kim remains in control. China also dreads a scenario whereby North and South Korea become unified. That could bring a staunch American ally, or even American troops, straight to China's border?exactly what propelled China to war 52 years ago. With that in mind, "China will never support a regime change in North...
...number of other E.U. countries have been trying to garner support for harmonization of corporate taxes. With a level tax, the theory goes, companies will have no incentive to move. But the lower-tax U.K opposes the idea. If the trickle of companies leaving Germany does become a flood, that could prove disastrous to Schröder's political future. The government reported last week that unemployment had crossed the psychologically important 4 million barrier and stands at 9.7% of the workforce. The country's leading banks cut their growth forecast to .3% for 2002 and only 1% next year...
...council’s old voting system, called “ucvote,” was dismantled after a flood of the Holworthy Hall basement destroyed the computer, Fernandez said...