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Chernoff said that settling a rape case without a trial "makes a judge uncomfortable" but said he accepted the agreement struck by prosecutors and Elster's attorney...
Looked at in this light, 1992's Hurricane Andrew, officially the costliest hurricane on record with damage, in today's dollars, of $35.5 billion, dropped to second place. The first was a Category 4 hurricane (wind speeds above 130 m.p.h.) that struck southeast Florida in 1926 and skipped into Alabama. (It has no name because the custom of naming storms began only in the early '50s.) If that storm took the same path today, it would cause damage totaling $77.5 billion. Of the 10 costliest hurricanes of the century, nine occurred before 1970. The only recent hurricane to make Pielke...
...beaches along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, researchers say, that a hurricane of even modest intensity can cause a multibillion-dollar disaster. In Florida the value of insured coastal property rose from $566 billion in 1988 to $1 trillion in 1995. Consider Pinellas County, Fla. The last hurricane struck there in 1921, when the county had 28,000 people. Today Pinellas County has nearly 870,000 people...
...suddenly change in intensity. For Jerry Jarrell, director of the federal Tropical Prediction Center (which includes the National Hurricane Center), the most frightening near miss was not Andrew but Hurricane Opal, which hit the Gulf Coast in October 1995. Opal had been a weak storm, but just before it struck, it underwent what forecasters call "rapid deepening," leaping from Category 2 to nearly Category 5, with winds at 150 m.p.h. It also started moving faster. Such rapid change is the thing emergency managers most fear. Says Tom Millwee, coordinator of the Texas Division of Emergency Management...
Though Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking...