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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...
...math and physics departments had been hit the hardest by the thefts because they had workstations stolen," Steen said...
...thing to switch from martinis to white wine or from saturated fat to unsaturated fat, and quite another to adopt moderation as a permanent life-style. The hardest challenge, perhaps, is to eat and drink just what your body needs, and not one ounce more...
...government's other revenue raisers -- from national- park admission fees to gas and cigarette taxes -- can still be hiked by majority vote. Those levies, which will probably rise if Newt's other tax- cutting schemes become law, are the regressive ones, which hit the middle class and poor hardest. Make no mistake. Upward income redistribution -- leaving the less fortunate less protected -- is part of what Newt's revolution is about...
...powerful earthquake struck western Japan this afternoon, killing an estimated 75 people, injuring hundreds and trapping hundreds more in collapsed buildings. The quake, which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by at least 17 aftershocks, hardest in the major port city of Kobe, where fires burned out of control, trains derailed and a major elevated expressway toppled, spilling about 50 vehicles onto the street below. The shaking, which began at 3:46 p.m. EST (5:46 a.m. in Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest...