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...threatened paternity suit in Illinois.Sources close to the case tell TIME reporter Lisa Towle that the defense has evidence that no blood was found in the car. Furthermore, the defense claims it has been denied dental records that police say prove a corpse found in a South Carolina swamp was really the elder Jordan. On top of that, Towle says, the flamboyant defense attorney and his team have a reputation for creating confusion: "I don't think they expect anyone to buy this lock, stock and barrel, but this gives them that wedge of doubt...
...nation's recent history. In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, wind whipped up one of dozens of forest fires now ravaging Western states, trapping 52 fire fighters and killing 13. One fire fighter was still missing this afternoon. At least 17 people have been killed by floods that continued to swamp towns in the Southeast. Rising waters in Georgia claimed all the known fatalities; divers were still searching for five people this evening. Damages there already amount to more than $60 million, and watersare expected to crest Saturday at 20 feet above flood stage.parpar
...just released CD Swamp Ophelia is Indigo Girls' most complex and satisfying album. They started off performing at coffeehouses and on street corners, and their early songs were naked and direct -- just the two of them playing guitar and singing folk music. Swamp Ophelia is more ambitious, with waves of orchestration, African drums, accordions and trumpets; Saliers even plays a long electric-guitar solo. "I think this record is more polarized than our other records," says Ray. "There are more extremes going on. Electric and acoustic. Loud sounds and soft sounds...
What could be easier than scrapping a program that is widely derided as morally poisonous, politically stupid and a fiscal swamp? Welfare is a relatively tiny budget item, only 1% of annual government spending. But the stories of fraud and abuse are so common and the evidence of disastrous unintended consequences so compelling that a large majority -- 81% of those surveyed in a TIME/CNN poll -- thinks it is time for "fundamental reform." Clinton's plan, like the three major bills already proposed in Congress, has as its core a requirement that people work for their benefits...
Andrew Jackson Higgins a pivot of history? No doubt, claims biographer Jerry Strahan. Higgins was a hard-drinking, tough-talking swamp rat and boat genius in New Orleans who developed the square-front wooden tubs that ferried Allied soldiers and their equipment onto the beaches. On the morning of June 6, 1,500 Higgins boats nestled aboard the larger transports, the crucial link between sea and shore...