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Residents of the drizzly Pacific Northwest are accustomed to wet weather, but the floods that struck western Oregon and Washington last week were something else. In one 24-hour period, 6 in. of rain fell in Oregon and 4.5 in. in Washington, causing rivers to overflow their banks, driving thousands from their homes and closing highway I-5 for three days. At least three people were killed...
...West: Wild. From the supercharged Pacific Northwest to struggling Arizona, no region claims a wider range of strengths and weaknesses. Paced by high-flying Boeing, which is working off a four-year backlog of aircraft orders, Seattle is attracting newcomers from across the country. The median price of a Seattle home rose 23% in the third quarter to $110,000, marking the largest increase in the U.S. By contrast, Phoenix is mired in a real estate depression in the wake of a heedless building spree. Lenders foreclosed on more than 15,000 residential mortgages last year, up nearly 20% from...
...makings of an ecological catastrophe. A mysterious explosion tears a huge gash in the hull of a supertanker off the northwest African coast, igniting a fire that forces the crew to abandon ship. For nearly two weeks, the leaking, foundering vessel is left to drift toward the rich fishing grounds and unspoiled beaches of Morocco. Some 19 million gal. of crude oil ooze into the sea, nearly twice the amount disgorged by the Exxon Valdez in Alaska last March. A replay of grim images -- gooey, blackened shorelines and oil-soaked animal corpses -- appears inevitable...
...Khark 5, en route from the Persian Gulf, had been steaming toward Rotterdam when the blast crippled her in rough seas some 100 miles northwest of Casablanca. The cause of the explosion remained unknown last week, although Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh attributed the blast to the rupture of one of the ship's storage tanks during a storm...
...ecological symposium that led to TIME's selection of the endangered earth as Planet of the Year. "This has been a busy year," says sciences editor Charles Alexander. "We ran a story on the environment about every other week, including reports on logging in the Northwest and Japan's environmental practices, and covers on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the rain forests in the Amazon." Our guests at both conferences at least agreed on one thing: next year promises to be as hectic as this year on the international and environmental fronts...