Word: reliefs
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...River reached record highs and threatened to cause disastrous flooding, Fargo residents weathered a blizzard and 40-m.p.h. winds while 3.5 million sandbags served as temporary levees to protect North Dakota's largest city. Though businesses, schools and streets have reopened, local officials are lobbying for permanent disaster-relief funding--in the past 12 years, the region has seen two hundred-year floods. As one city official said of Fargo's ceaseless battle with Mother Nature, "You kind of feel like it's a Bruce Willis film...
When I opened Monday’s email from Dean Michael D. Smith and Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, entitled “January Experience Announcement,” I breathed a deep sigh of relief. The College, at least this year, has decided not to offer any classes or organized internships during the new five-week stretch, instead allowing students to plan their own breaks. Harvard students will finally get that long January vacation that their friends at other colleges have always taunted them with...
...hope is that doctors will one day be able to prescribe drugs or other treatments to alleviate persistent itch. "This would produce the relief from itching caused by scratching but without the damage caused by sustained scratching," says Giesler. And that - for those who have had an itch they can't quite reach - would be a minor medical miracle...
...Cornell got back within one in the top of the seventh on a two-run bomb from Jessy Berkey, but Brown struck out Tomlinson to get the save in 3.2 innings of relief...
...symbolic acts, like cutting off an inter-Korean military hotline that had been set up. The Japanese, for their part, have been in a rage ever since Kim conceded that North Korea had abducted several of their citizens in the 1970s to train as spies. While there is some relief in Japan that yesterday's rocket flight didn't drop dangerous debris onto the country, there is also disgust at the rocket's blatantly provocative flight path: right over Japan. (See pictures of the New York Philharmonic's performance in Pyongyang...