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...worst Northern California flooding in nearly a decade grew worse today as oozing mud swamped the state's southern half, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes and abandon cars in raging water. In the north, at least three people were killed when trees or power lines fell on vehicles as seven rivers overflowed their banks...
...sword. As he has demonstrated throughout the 16 years of his papacy, John Paul needs no divisions. He is an army of one, and his empire is both as ethereal and as ubiquitous as the soul. In a slum in Nairobi, Mary Kamati is dying of AIDS. In her mud house hangs a portrait of John Paul. "This is the only Pope who has come to this part of the world," she says. During his most recent visit, he sprinkled her with holy water. "That," she says, eyes trembling, "is the way to heaven...
...known far and wide as Swamp Angel, was "scarcely taller than her mother" at birth, and -- though her father gave her a shiny new ax to play with in her cradle -- "was a full two years old before she built her first log cabin." Her epic mud wrestle with the giant bear Thundering Tarnation has the rowdy, mile-wide quality of the Paul Bunyan tales: the combatants fall asleep after days of pummeling each other, and "Tarnation snored louder than a rockslide, while Angel snored like a locomotive in a thunderstorm. Their snoring rumbled through the earth, tumbling boulders...
...made a habit of climbing from office to office in his trek up the ladder to political nirvana, running virtually every year for the past 15. His favorite tactics are somewhat unorthodox: he joked during the primary about wanting to mud wrestle with his Republican opponent, State Rep. Ellen Harley...
Having wreaked havoc in the Caribbean -- especially in Haiti, where its torrential rains, flooding and mud slides caused more than 500 deaths -- Tropical Storm Gordon swept across Florida, devastating some of the state's prime winter farmland and killing six people, before heading out into the Atlantic, where, intensifying into Hurricane Gordon, it pounded the North Carolina coast...