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...ATHLETIC PEAK] Once held Russell, Kansas, record in the half-mile...
DIED. VANGELIA GUSHTEROVA, 84, who was known as "Vanga," a prophet venerated by politicians and peasants; in Rupite, Bulgaria. By her account, Vanga was hurled more than a mile by a storm at age 12--which left her blind but may have opened up worlds hidden and future. She dreamed in 1941 of an "ancient horseman" who foretold the Nazi march into the Balkans...
...makeshift waiting center set up in the auditorium of Grady Memorial Hospital, a mile from the park, shaken relatives and friends of victims gathered in search of information about their loved ones. From time to time, a Red Cross nurse would appear and read out names written in blue ballpoint pen on her rubber gloves. Much of her news was reasonably good: most patients had only minor injuries. Meanwhile, those waiting traded stories about the night. "It didn't seem like a real bomb to me," said John, a young British man who was crying as he waited for news...
From high above, the burning remnants of the crash looked like a city's lights at night, like the lights of Paris. At sea level they became a pulse of fire, lifted and lowered by the roll of the waves. The shape of the mile-long area of the fires changed continuously, like drops of mercury. Now it was a pool of votive candles. Now a constellation. Now the elongated map of Long Island itself...
...point where the road forks left toward the Coast Guard station and Moriches Bay, the people who were allowed to pass park their cars in a baseball field and walk a mile or so in the hot dust. License plates read Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. The TV people have come with huge trucks and satellite dishes, some of which are the size of dinner plates and sit atop tall poles; they are connected to the trucks by red wires in coils. A parking lot full of these trucks looks like a moon landing at rush hour...