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...course, there have always been volcanic eruptions, and the tales of El Nino date back at least to the Spanish conquistadors. Old-timers can point to freak weather occurrences that put the Los Angeles floods to shame, like the 1928 storm that bombarded southwestern Nebraska with hailstones the size of grapefruit. Or the blizzard of 1888 that buried the Eastern Seaboard in snowdrifts the size of four-story buildings. "There is a record set somewhere every day," says Steve Zebiak, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory...
HERE IS A STORY AS TWISTED AS THE THIN bands of highway that corduroy the mountainous tip of southwestern Virginia, a remote pocket of mining country where the river runs black with coal dust in the spring. This much can be stated with certainty: on the night of March 10, 1981, in the town of Grundy, a young woman named Wanda Fay McCoy was raped, stabbed twice in the chest and slashed across the neck with such force that the gash, 4 in. wide and 2 in. deep, cut almost to her spinal cord. When her husband Brad returned home...
...populous state into two or even three states. Talk of secession is on the rise again across the U.S. Like those who want to subdivide California, many citizens in other states think they'd be better off without their big cities, high taxes or state governments. In Kansas, 10 southwestern counties hope that parts of neighboring Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado will join them in founding a 51st state. Since Kansans in the rebellious counties voted 9 to 1 in favor of the idea earlier this month, local officials have been working on a new constitution and planning a convention...
Euro Disney got mixed results from two architects named Antoine. Grumbach's Sequoia Lodge is a nontoxic Rocky Mountain high -- restful, woodsy, organic. Predock's Hotel Santa Fe, once you get past its drive-in-theater billboard of Clint Eastwood, looks as bleak as a Southwestern insane asylum. For anyone who wants to get suicidally depressed at Euro Disney, this cinder-block shantytown is the place to bunk...
...only politician to be a rising star in three decades," he knew pain and adversity in childhood. His father, a heavy- equipment salesman, was killed in a freak road accident three months before Clinton -- originally christened William J. Blythe IV -- was born on Aug. 19, 1946, in the little southwestern Arkansas town of Hope. Five months later, his mother Virginia returned to nursing school in Shreveport, La., to get a degree in anesthesiology, leaving Bill with grandparents who ran a small grocery store. When Bill was four, she returned to Hope and married Roger Clinton, a Buick dealer who moved...