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...motels and condominiums smashed to smithereens. In the Florida Panhandle tornadoes, spun off from Ivan's leading edge, uprooted pine trees and ripped the roofs off buildings. And across the southern U.S., in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina, Ivan's heavy rains turned creeks into rivers and rivers into inland seas. At least 40 people are thought to have died during Ivan's terrifying assault on the U.S., and more than 70 in the Caribbean . And it's not over; even as Ivan's tattered remnants saturated the southeastern U.S. with flooding rains, Tropical Storm Jeanne was menacing the Dominican...
...Friday, after a million people were ordered to evacuate the Tampa area, Charley slammed into the shoreline 100 miles to the south instead. The 145-m.p.h. winds twisted aluminum siding as if it were gift ribbon and snapped 100-year-old pine trees. Then, as people raced inland, the storm followed, reminding everyone that on this extremity of land, there is little room to escape. "What we've managed to do is to evacuate a lot of people into the path of a hurricane," said a Tampa official. Governor Jeb Bush conceded the limitations of technology: "God doesn't follow...
Brian Lentz ’02-’03 is hitting .246-2-12 with 25 strikeouts in 69 at-bats for the Mariners high-A affiliate Inland Empire of the California League. He has spent most of the season backing up the more highly-rated 20-year old catching prospect Rene Rivera, prompting Lentz to tell the Press-Enterprise, “It’s tough. You’re not getting to play every day so you can’t see where you’re at as a player?...
...almost eclipsed by another daring raid the following year. In April 1805, Captain William Eaton put together a mixed force of Arab rebels and mercenaries and American Marines, and in a maneuver that has since been compared to that of the charismatic T.E. Lawrence, led a desert march from inland that took Tripoli's second city, Derna, by surprise. Lieut. Presley O'Bannon of the Marine Corps hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the captured town, and the Marine anthem preserves his gesture to this...
Otherwise, he has moved among a series of homes in the Boston area: after leaving New York he and his growing family moved to Ipswich, Mass. where he’d had his honeymoon. Divorcing in 1976 and remarrying a year later, he first moved inland to Georgetown, and then, in the mid-1980s, to the coastal community of Beverly Farms, where he presently lives in the childhood home of a Harvard classmate...