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Former President Ronald Reagan's weekend announcement revealing he'd been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease has since drawn a near-tidal wave of sympathetic calls and faxes to his California office. Staff members were so overwhelmed by the outpouring yesterday that they gave up and went home. In his handwritten letter Saturday, Reagan said, "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."Post your opinion on theHealth & Medecinebulletin board...
...once the game got started, things went terribly wrong--over and over and over again. This game wasn't an avalanche for the Crimson, slowly building and then submerging. It was a succession of tidal waves, each one hitting with greater force. Harvard gave up five touchdowns of 20 yards or greater...
Typhoon Fred killed 700 people in eastern China this past weekend. During its maximum strength, it packed winds of 118 m.p.h. and caused landslides, tidal waves and flooding in more than 30 towns. Financial losses are estimated to be $1.2 billion. BTW: Other parts of China are trying to recover from a severe drought...
...only real salvation. Some refugees, suspecting that they were merely choosing where they were going to die, decided to head back. But the vast, frightened majority lacked the strength or the will to follow. For relief workers, the task still felt like trying to turn back a tidal wave, one teacup at a time...
...crater the size of Rhode Island and throwing so much pulverized real estate into the stratosphere that the sun is blocked for months and Earth goes into a worldwide deep freeze. If the comet hits an ocean, a pall of dust rises from underwarter sediment, and a tidal wave several thousand feet high races across the sea and hundreds of miles inland...