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...donations of blood, food and clothing were broadcast over radio and television. Military rescue vehicles took up positions throughout the city. The residents of Prague were at war with the elements, as a week of heavy rains swelled the Vltava River to 35 times its average flow, swamping the metro system, collapsing apartment buildings, engulfing roads and bridges and displacing some 50,000 people. It was the worst flood to hit Prague in more than a century. But as the waters receded at week's end, the city could claim a major victory. Thanks to a hastily built...
While the Metro and the city walkways are covered in advertisements for special exhibits, this show was marked by one sandwich board outside the entrance to the building. Clearly, attracting visitors was not a priority for the exhibit organizers...
...ascots. Offstage, the Hives prefer black T shirts that blare their individual rock-'n'-roll pseudonyms--Chris Dangerous, Dr. Matt Destruction, Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem--in big block letters. They are not courting anonymity. Nevertheless, shortly before their concert last week at Chicago's old Metro theater, the Hives walked past their fans in the theater lobby, sporting their identity-shouting T shirts, without so much as a single "Isn't that Howlin' Pelle?" or "Look, it's Dr. Destruction...
...used by 120 organic farms in Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt had been contaminated with a banned herbicide called Nitrofen. As a result, farmers said, at least 98,000 chickens would be destroyed. Worse, a number of big food chains like Metro announced that all organic products such as eggs, poultry and even beef are being pulled from shelves as a precaution. Uwe Bartels, Lower Saxony's agriculture minister, described it as "the biggest scandal in organic farming in Germany." As if that weren't bad enough, a squabble erupted in Berlin...
...Saturday, the Crimson dispatched Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion Marist, 4-0, in the first round of the tournament, held at the Beren Tennis Center...