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...scene was repeated from Texas to Ohio and Maryland as the freak storms, caused by a southerly dip in the jet stream that slammed cold Canadian air against warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, zigzagged across the Southeast. High winds tossed a school bus full of children off a road in North Carolina (five kids and the driver were admitted to a hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister...
...been etched out of limestone by acidic water flowing underground. For a long time, researchers believed that nature could accomplish this feat in only one way: through the action of carbonic acid, which is produced when water reacts with carbon dioxide. The weak acid slowly dissolves bedrock. An underground stream forms, and an elaborate network of chambers like those found at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky takes shape. The unusual limestone terrains where this process occurs are known as karst, named for one such region in Slovenia that is famous for its caves. About 15% of the earth's terrain...
...hours. There would be either a story on what President Clinton will do in office or an analysis of Bush's upset victory, but not both -- yet both had to be in the works. So correspondents with Clinton and Bush and with other crucial candidates sent in a steady stream of interviews and analysis throughout the night, as the staff at TIME's New York City headquarters fought to put it all together...
...governing style has been captured best by biographer Kenneth Davis: "Whitmanesque in his zestful openness to a variety that . . . included contradictions, and in his 'yea-saying' to all and sundry, he was absolutely confident of his ability to 'weave together' antagonistic counsels and personalities . . . he talked with a steady stream of visitors, each of whom left him saying and often believing that he was deeply sympathetic with the visitor's views if he did not, in fact, share them...
...apocalyptic humor, as it happened, was also prophetic. Around midnight, a slow leak into the newsroom developed into a steady stream of water. It came from the bathroom upstairs. A long line had formed outside said bathroom, and I waited for the occupant to emerge...