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Wielding 100-mph winds and whipping up 12-foot waves, the fourth hurricane in as many weeks landed in the U.S. Virgin Islands this evening. Puerto Rico, which may also be hit, closed its airport today at 3 p.m. Last week's hurricane, Luis, the most powerful this season, killed 12 people in the Caribbean islands...
...astate of emergency, closed state offices, activated the National Guard, and suspended toll-collecting on evacuation routes in preparation for the arrival Tuesday of Hurricane Erin. While not projected to be as lethal as Andrew was, Erin is expected to pound the southern part of the state with 90 mph winds, dumping up to 10 inches of rain and causing widespread flooding...
Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson had the demanding task of steering the 100-ton Atlantis to within three inches of the 123-ton Mir, at a closing rate no faster than one foot in 10 seconds, while the two ships sped in tandem around the Earth at 17,500 mph...
Boeing's projected aircraft would have a baseline design carrying more than 300 passengers, as well as a range of 5800 statute miles, flying at Mach 2.4 [1775 mph] at 60,000 feet [18 kilometers] with four engines each with 50,000 pounds of thrust, according to Harrison. The Concorde currently carries 100 passengers, and has a range of 4000 statute miles flying at Mach...
Tropical storm Gordon, which killed at least 531 people in Haiti and four people in Florida, whipped itself into a hurricane today before heading up the Atlantic coast and out to sea today. This afternoon, the hurricane's 75-mph winds swirled 325 miles off Cape Hatteras and forecasters expected no immediate threat to U.S. shores. (It could, however, shift back toward land anywhere up to New England, they said.) Meanwhile, says TIME Miami Bureau Chief Cathy Booth, Gordon's lesser incarnation swamped 35,000 acres of cropland in Florida's Dade County -- destroying about half the U.S. winter vegetable...