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...there was considerable property damage -- about $300 million in Texas alone, where insulating home water pipes is seldom the uppermost thought on a homeowner's mind. Plumbers, not surprisingly, finished the year working overtime. Coming on the heels of two hurricanes as well as several floods and hailstorms, the frigid interlude signaled that home-insurance rates in the Lone Star State are likely...
...guest schools. Saturday, Lincoln staged a parade in front of the Cornhusker Hotel, where the players from the visiting schools were staying. Locals called the annual parade their version of the Macy's Parade. Gigantic floats and high school bands entertained the city, as locals bundled up in the frigid streets...
Once a month this fall, natural disasters have devastated widely scattered parts of the U.S. In September Hurricane Hugo slammed into the Carolina coast; October brought the San Francisco Bay earthquake. Last week the furies returned in a burst of tornadoes. Frigid air howled out of the Arctic to collide with record balmy weather pushing northward from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The unseasonable clash generated a hopscotching barrage of twisters through 14 states from Arkansas to New York that killed at least 30 people. Though the storms were briefer than Hugo, the whirling winds were stronger than...
...interest is low, it's certainly not because the issue isn't pervasive. Just now, a familiar figure with a shredded overcoat and shopping cart brimming with empty soda cans has stopped outside my dorm window, inspecting his inventory, maybe worrying about the onset of frigid nights. The march is for him, and for his family...
...addition to critically assessing Holmes' legal views, Novick is not afraid of exploring the peculiar quirks and flaws in the justice's personality. It is with some degree of harshness that Novick relates Holmes' frigid diary entry on the day he was married to his wife Fanny, around the time he was made the sole editor of the American Law Review: "Married. Sole editor...