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...government controlled entity, this (or any other) Colorado ski resort is a privately-owned business. It had nothing to do with the Colorado amendment passed in November, and to not accept it as the generous gift it is would not only have the same effect as pitting in the ocean, it would, in the long term, be imprudent...
...Hurricane Andrew, at least a dozen people were killed and many thousands evacuated -- some from flooded rail stations and Wall Street lobbies. Hundreds of thousands lost power. Among the pervasive damage: windows sucked out of New York City skyscrapers and a century-old fishing pier swept away in Ocean Grove, New Jersey...
...Lynch (Hyperion; $60). When the "unsinkable" ocean liner went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, its story had scarcely begun. The entire epic is here, from the fatal encounter with an iceberg to the discovery of the sunken wreck in 1989. Ken Marschall's paintings imagine the past in careful, chilling detail...
...humanitarian relief supplies finally got to George Bush. The outgoing U.S. President proposed to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that American military forces be dispatched to ensure that the food and medicine reach the starving population. Two thousand U.S. Marines aboard amphibious ships in the Indian Ocean are available for the job, and % Pentagon sources say an additional 15,000 or more would be ready, provided that the U.N. Security Council approves the initiative this week. Somali strongman General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who has hamstrung the oversight of an existing 500-man Pakistani unit, says somewhat ambiguously that...
...Komsomolets also carried two nuclear torpedoes containing 28 lbs. of plutonium with a half-life of 24,000 years and toxicity so high that a speck can kill. Russian experts warned that the plutonium could spill into the water and contaminate vast reaches of ocean as early...