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...Koreans call it "the gate-crasher of spring." Every year, huge storms of fine yellow sand, churned up by winds in the Gobi Desert, swirl across northeastern China and descend on the peninsula, obscuring visibility and dusting everything in yellow. Last week's storm-2002's first-was Korea's worst in at least 40 years. Dust concentrations were 20 times normal in parts of Seoul. Worse still, some scientists now fear the crud clouds are picking up toxins, such as cadmium and arsenic, as they cross China's northeastern industrial belt. The pollutant payload is small but "very, very...
...interview, Father Spagnolia, 64, a small man, was tired both by the media swirl and a fast he was maintaining to protest Cardinal Law's handling of the Geoghan case. (The Cardinal, he says, has still not begged the flock's forgiveness for protecting Geoghan.) He answered my questions quietly but surprised me often with his scatological language, which I surmised he used to show indignation. He said that while the Cardinal's new zero-tolerance policy may seem a good thing, the swiftness and size of the roundup were tantamount to a witch hunt. Father Spagnolia was not convinced...
...million a day. Now, as his empire founders, Kirch has put his Formula One stake up for sale, with pundits predicting he will be lucky to get half his original outlay. Although the rights for soccer World Cups 2002 and 2006 are bringing in some income, rumors continue to swirl that Premiere will soon seek to renegotiate its $330 million annual deal with Germany's domestic league - double the amount of the previous contract. "We have to bring our agreements into line with reality," Georg Kofler, the head of KirchPayTV, told the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. That reality...
Even if Stein gets the necessary number of qualifying contributions, she may have more difficulty in getting public funds, as controversy over Clean Elections continues to swirl around Beacon Hill...
...think nothing of packing up their skating prodigy and relocating near an elite coach (as did the Yamaguchis and Lipinskis), Hughes and her parents have always made school, not skating, the priority. Even as her abilities on the ice gained national prominence, Hughes continued to be part of the swirl of everyday life with her five brothers and sisters and remained rooted to her home and family in the New York City suburb of Great Neck. She will graduate with her high school class next year, and she takes her SAT review book to every meet. "My parents saw that...