Word: northerners
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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...
That, perhaps, is one of the few eventualities for which the owner of northern Nevada's only abortion clinic remains unprotected. After his former clinic in downtown Reno was fire-bombed four times, Stutes acknowledges, "I was mad as hell -- and afraid." Today, he is still angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees...
More important, Delacroix's journey south to the Near East would become a model for avant-garde painters looking for purer and more intense experiences of light, locale and color than Northern Europe could offer. Van Gogh went south to Arles; Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and above all Henri Matisse would reach North Africa. "I have found landscapes in Morocco," Matisse claimed, "exactly as they are described in Delacroix's paintings." Morocco satisfied something in the early modernist quest for explicit, fresh, formal experience. And it was Delacroix who pointed the artists there...
Weekend flooding from a series of Pacific storms forced several hundred people from their homes in northern California. Three rivers north of San Francisco are expected to overflow again later this week. Evacuations were underway from San Francisco Bay to Eureka, 225 miles to the north. Flooding was worst this morning in the wine region: Napa County's Napa River crested at 26.5 feet this morning, while neighboring Sonoma County's Russian River hit 45 feet at one point; flood stage is 32 feet. The storms have also saturated southern California, causing more than $20 million in damage last week...
After the crash of the American Eagle ATR-72, the Federal Aviation Administration barred ATR model planes from flying in icy weather. That forced the carrier to move other planes more suitable to cold conditions to northern cities. But late last week, American Eagle canceled all its flights at Chicago's busy O'Hare International Airport after a pilots' union complained that the replacement fleet's crews had not adequately been trained to fly during cold weather...