Word: raine
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Last year, after fire destroyed their home outside Canton, Miss., Willie Anderson and seven of her children moved into a rented shack. The place was a horror, with no electricity or running water, rotting walls papered with newsprint, and gaping holes in the tin roof that allowed the rain to pour through. "Once a snake came up under the stove, and we got big rats in there all the time," recalled Anderson, 47, a big, strapping woman in a flowered blouse. "I couldn't wait to get away...
...very small percentage of the population is `scientifically literate," Molnar continued. "Many people think that acid rain is caused by radioactivity, that DNA is a food additive...
Meanwhile, a flotilla of ferries and extra trains helped keep rain-soaked traffic in San Francisco moving yesterday, but only at a bumper-to-bumper pace. In the rain, rescuers halted the search for survivors at an earthquake-flattened freeway when the rubble became too unstable...
Gale warnings were posted early yesterday, rain was heavy in some areas and one ferry was turned back because of rough waters on the San Francisco Bay, authorities said. The Union Ferry Building, the terminus of all ferries when they reach San Francisco, was closed because of high waves and the boats were diverted to a pier about a mile away...
...Bush will have to hesitate before pulling the trigger. In pursuit of Noriega's demise, we may impose sanctions to wreck Panama's economy (as we have done), we may support a coup, we may even rain bombs on Panama City (though no one is suggesting that). The one thing we cannot do is take him out on purpose. Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The Bush people claim that this standing order even made...