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...explosion at a chemical factory in northeastern China has forced local officials to cut off water supplies to a city of 10 million people. Taps ran dry in Harbin on Tuesday with virtually no advance warning and no indication of how long the shutoff will persist. Panicked residents responded to conflicting government statements with a furious buying spree during which all potable liquid at the city's flagship Wal-Mart sold out in hours. By Tuesday afternoon, homes, hospitals and schools had no running water, and few options...
...real this time - to erase the one money edge they have over the Republicans. Hagel and Bush are wooing wafflers with the political cover of a watered-down version, possibly (more gossip) in exchange for tax-cut votes. Even Mitch McConnell, reform's staunchest bogeyman, has a proposal - a shutoff mechanism for the soft-money ban if the outside advertising provision is found to be unconstitutional on free-speech grounds...
...three consecutive wins set the stage for a matchup with then-No. 2 Princeton in front of 2,269 roaring fans at Ohiri Field. The Tigers, who recently won their third national championship, had focused on the game and effectively used First Team All-American Christian Cook to shutoff Ferrucci. The Crimson played tough behind a strong effort from the defense but fell...
IMELDA MARCOS Unpaid $200,000 electric bill may cause power shutoff at husband's air-cooled crypt...
...under Serb assault and siege, its streets reportedly littered with corpses. Fighting around the southern town of Mostar, the chief objective of a recent Croat offensive, also intensified. Sarajevo went without power or water for 48 hours after Serbs blew up power lines. Though service was restored, the shutoff illustrated how tight a vise the besiegers have clamped on the city...