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...story is told through a series of flashback, in which the various couples lead Robert down a path of self-awareness that concludes in the birthday party. The couples' individual situations show Robert that married life indeed requires that which he fears--sacrifice and pain--but it also provides a sense of fulfillment and completeness...
...interstate from Austin, did have time to take precautions. Meteorologists, concerned with the unseasonably high dew points (it has been a bumper wild-flower season) were broadcasting warnings. Tornado sirens went off at 3:55 p.m., 10 minutes before the winds hit. But for those in the path of this twister, all that knowledge was in vain...
...dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide and seven miles long, the twister left at least 27 people dead, nothing but bald concrete slabs in the ground where homes once stood, and a small town with big gaps among its chains of families and friends...
While Jarrell was the most disastrously affected, tornadoes struck a wide area from Waco to hill country south of Austin. Elsewhere, however, the destruction in the path of the storm, which led to three other deaths, seemed almost whimsical. The roof was ripped off a supermarket in Cedar Park, but when shoppers who had taken refuge in the freezer section emerged, they saw apples and melons still neatly stacked in the produce department. Dan Wachoub was barbecuing in his backyard when he saw what appeared to be black smoke behind his home. He went inside and called the fire department...
...deregulation. He started as a pilot with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in 1969, back when the government assigned routes and set profit margins, assuring existing carriers a captive market and barring new entrants. It was partly because Kimberly-Clark's headquarters, then in Neenah, Wis., was off the beaten path that the company started its private fleet. "Air travel was difficult and expensive. We were frustrated," Hoeksema says. The paper company named its unit Midwest Express Airlines and began offering service to the public--specifically the well-heeled business public--in 1984, the year the Civil Aeronautics Board was abolished...