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Until Hurricane Fran beat him to it, Bob Dole had planned to spend last Friday campaigning in New Jersey, trying hard to make a dent in another crucial swing state. The master of clanging symbols, who once toured the Old Man ale plant in New Hampshire, was scheduled to appear at the Switlik Parachute Co. in Trenton, a factory that makes lifeboats, life jackets and parachutes. "Let me get this straight," said a top campaign official after the trip was scrubbed. "We're going to a factory that makes products for people who are drowning or crashing? Thank...
...satellite captures a powerful, poetic portrait of Hurricane Fran It's one of nature's dark ironies that the most horrific expressions of its power are also the most beautiful. Think Mount St. Helens or a Pacific tsunami. Add to these Hurricane Fran, pinwheeling toward the U.S. last Wednesday...
...time, Fran was on her way to claiming at least 21 lives and doing probably more than $1 billion worth of damage. What makes this portrait remarkable is not just the violence it captures but also the method of capturing it. The image was snapped by the GOES-8 weather satellite, which actually took two pictures, one black-and-white and one in the invisible infrared spectrum. These two renderings were beamed to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
EAUFORT, S.C.: South Carolina Governor David Beasley declared a state of emergency, called out the National Guard and ordered half a million people evacuated from coastal areas as Hurricane Fran swirled toward landfall on 115 mph winds. "Fran is a large and brutal storm, and she is not to be trifled with in any shape, way, fashion or form," said Beasley. Fran, which some experts fear may pack the punch of Hurricane Hugo, is likely to come ashore Thursday afternoon north of Charleston, the same place where Hugo, with its 140 mph winds, hit land with devastating effect...
...exhaustively funny" on its video-cassette box, "Strictly Ballroom" is a catty, hysterical psuedo-documentary which takes a look at the catty, hysterical world of competitive ballroom dancing. Perversely festooned women and frighteningly suntanned men duke it out in this battle of the shallowest, as our hero, the homely Fran, tries to win the heart of a pretty-boy rebel who wants to bring his daring pasa doble to the Australian Grand Prix...