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...Your heart breaks for these folks," said Governor Pete Wilson after touring some of the hardest-hit areas. Earlier, when the rains began to fall on Sacramento, the Governor had been making his second-term inaugural speech. He had spoken of the grit and tenacity with which Californians had overcome one destructive force after another. The venue for the gubernatorial address had been changed from outdoors to indoors because of the weather; meanwhile the true deluge was moving toward California on the wings of a 200-m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity...
NASHUA, N.H.: One of the Granite State's cities hardest-hit by the recession. When I went to Nashua for a day to canvass for Tom Harkin last week, I fully expected that the economy would be the most important issue on the voters' minds--and it was. But I was surprised by the voters' near-universal indecision about which candidate to support...
...obdurate if the food were funneled through the Joint Relief Partnership, a group of five Ethiopian churches without ties to any of the rebel groups. In response to heavy international pressure, Mengistu hinted that the government might work with the churches to open "corridors of safe passage" through the hardest-hit regions. But he has yet to give formal approval...
Still, AIDS remains a significant problem worldwide. And while researchers have made tremendous strides in drug development, these drugs are expensive and more difficult to use elsewhere, especially in the hardest-hit areas of Africa. The challenge to American researchers now is to find not only better treatments but also treatments that are low in cost and easy...
...east toward El Yunque, the only tropical rain forest in the U.S. National Forest System, will see the destruction firsthand. The 40-ft. leafy cathedral that vaulted over the roads is now open to the sun, and once lush reaches of forest are bare, broken and brown. In the hardest-hit areas, 60% of the hardwood trees are gone, including huge mahoganies, and many of the rare Puerto Rican parrots have disappeared...