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Scientists love to swap these stories almost as much as they enjoy debunking oft-repeated twister myths (like the one about tornadoes driving bits of straw through fence posts--what may actually happen, scientists suggest, is that a sudden drop in air pressure forces the wood to expand, allowing the straw to lodge in newly opened cracks). But even with all they've learned about the physical forces that power the creation of twisters, meteorologists still cannot say beforehand what path a particular tornado is likely to take or how much damage it is likely to do. That's what...
...bishops will tell you they can't take care of that." Worse, Alexander's plan could balloon the deficit. His charity tax credit, much of which rewards people for gifts they'd make anyway, would cost $20 billion a year. And thanks to soaring Medicaid costs, the federal-state swap he proposes could add another $50 billion to the deficit...
...prominently in her campaign-finance course at Brigham Young University, Enid used $150,000 of her father's money by selling back to him a house he had given her. In '94 she needed millions, so Joe had to launder more of Daddy's money with a convoluted asset swap. The only difference is that those assets, Joe's family trusts, didn't exist. Enid admitted last week that she had lied about the transaction during the campaign, insisting that the windfall came from hard work and being otherwise "blessed." But she did so only because the truth...
...existence of a family trust, the elder Waldholtz, a Pittsburgh dentist, says it's news to him. That's bad news for Enid's father, who, according to Enid's statements to investigators, allegedly turned over $4 million in liquid assets to the couple in a swap that was supposed to bring him real estate from the presumed trust...
...table in front of him. (He found the recorder, flipped over the cassette and resumed talking.) On the other hand, Hershiser's teammate, Albert Belle, verbally assaulted nbc reporter Hannah Storm as she waited in the Indians' dugout before Game Three. (Shouldn't Albert and Hannah swap names...