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...Counting Blessings In Lili's Wake Half a million people in Texas and Louisiana battened down the hatches when Hurricane Lili came calling Friday. The precautions saved lives: Lili's 145 km/h winds felled trees, blew off roofs and shattered shop windows, leaving floods and power cuts in the storm's wake, but no deaths were reported. Two people were injured when a roof collapsed on them. "It looks like we were lucky," said a relieved Louisiana Governor Mike Foster. Less fortunate were the Caribbean island nations on Lili's route to the U.S.: she killed four people each...
...remnants of Tropical Storm Isidore had washed out Friday’s scheduled tune-up round, but it hardly fazed the Crimson this weekend. Chiampa finished in a three-way tie for second place overall with...
...stay on. The show has had little success catching up to the morning programs on NBC and ABC despite the millions of dollars CBS has sunk into it. Clayson will now report for The CBS Evening News and 48 Hours. The network will probably name Harry Smith and Hannah Storm to co-anchor a revamped morning format, but producers say they don't plan to find a new weatherman. Maybe they'll change their mind when the future of the program doesn't look so cloudy...
...year, even though the men were not properly trained for the mission. Benjamin Johnson, 21, of Rochester, N.Y., and Vincent Parker, 38, of Preston, Miss., died when the decrepit ship they were guarding, which had been seized by the Navy for smuggling Iraqi oil, went down during a violent storm. The sailors were part of a decade-long effort by the Navy to stop ships it suspects are carrying Iraqi oil in violation of the U.N. ban on such shipments. Until the sinking, there had never been a death among sailors or smugglers. That changed on Nov. 18, when...
...woods, but the endowment has weathered the two-year storm in fine shape,” he wrote in the annual report...