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...encouraging note was that a new tracking system -- installed during the two years since the last killer flood took seven lives in Southern California and caused $88 million in damage -- gave residents plenty of notice this time, up to 12 hours, and may have kept down the toll in human lives. But little could be done about property; sandbags are only so effective...
Earthquake experts now say that the quake in Western Japan is the deadliest to hit that country in 70 years. The death toll has now surpassed 4,000 and hundreds who are still missing are feared dead. By comparison, a 1928 quake in Fukui killed 3,769 people. Today, new fires flared in the city of Kobe as rescuers continued the monumental task of sifting through the wreckage for survivors. Six U.S. Air Force planes delivered 15,000 blankets to Kobe. The Japanese government has allocated $1 billion for earthquake relief and rebuilding. Each family that lost its head...
...final toll in the two-day shooting spree was two dead and five wounded. Were it not for security guard Richard Seron's quick reflexes, the casualties could have been much higher: Salvi's abandoned satchel also contained a second gun and 700 rounds of ammunition...
While investigators last week continued to dole out information on their progress and to urge the public to call a toll-free hotline with tips (1-800-701-BOMB), the seeming randomness of Mosser's murder left some people wondering if they might be next. Many advertising agencies beefed up their security procedures, and sales of such devices as X-ray metal detectors skyrocketed. Some computer users on the Internet discussed the case in private E-mail messages but avoided the public bulletin boards, loath to call attention to themselves. But John T. Horn, head of corporate security at Kroll...
Every morning, before his private and general audiences, John Paul devotes an hour or so to writing or -- increasingly, as age and injuries have taken their toll -- to dictation. When he can, he composes quickly, in Polish, with a neat, flowing hand, using a black felt-tipped pen. On the top left of every page he prints the letters AMDG (initials for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam -- To the Greater Glory of God). On the top right of the first page he inscribes Tuus Totus (All Thine), the opening words of a short prayer to the Virgin whose text he continues...