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...packed ATR-72 plane, American Eagle Flight 4184, heading to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport from Indianapolis, crashed in a northwestern Indiana soybean field during a heavy rainstorm. All 68 people aboard perished...
While yesterday's relentless rainstorm evoked exasperation and annoyance among many a drenched Harvard student, for first-year Giselle A. Corsa '98 the downpour was strangely comforting...
Details of this one reached Havana just as a swirling rainstorm sent pedestrians scurrying for shelter in doorways along the seaside Malecon. They thought the 20,000 figure was far too low. "One million, maybe 5 million people want to go to the U.S.," said a young woman, "but they keep changing the rules...
Seventy-three-year-old superstars are rare. Seventy-three-year-old superstars who can draw tens of thousands of youngsters from 70 countries to a jamboree in Denver are rarer still. But not even a Rocky Mountain rainstorm could drown out the welcome for Pope John Paul II as he landed at Stapleton International Airport last week. "John Paul Two, we love you!" shouted the crowd. "America, you are beautiful," responded the Pontiff...
...suffering through the state's longest and most widespread drought. New Delhi recorded ^ its hottest day in more than 40 years in June; Rome last week had its hottest day of this century. Torrential rains have become so severe in Hong Kong that meteorologists coined a new term -- black rainstorm alert -- to signal their approach. Weather-related losses at Lloyd's of London are staggering. Says underwriter Richard Keeling: "From what we have experienced over the past four or five years, we have either been very unlucky or things are getting worse out there...